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Take naked male buttocks and female breasts, a rainbow-colored staircase that lights up, a nonplot full of nonsense and nonjokes, an unseen Great Voice played by Gregory Peck, rope tricks and a dog act. What have you got? A soggy echo of The Ed Sullivan Show. Now mention the homeless to customers who paid $60 a ticket and add a row of chorines waving flags in the aftermath of a war. What have you got? A Tony Award. And a pious fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

Take naked male buttocks and female breasts, a rainbow-colored staircase that lights up, a nonplot full of nonsense and nonjokes, an unseen Great Voice played by Gregory Peck, rope tricks and a dog act. What have you got? A soggy echo of The Ed Sullivan Show. Now mention the homeless to customers who paid $60 a ticket and add a row of chorines waving flags in the aftermath of a war. What have you got? A Tony Award. And a pious fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991:Theater | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. The unseen star of this instant smash is Mikhail Gorbachev: his overtures to peace some years back inspired a parable of detente involving the Enterprise guys and the evil Klingon empire. Though William Shatner & Co. claim that this is the saga's last chapter, we'll bet they keep going until Willard Scott is wishing them all happy birthday. That would be about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 30, 1991 | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...recalling her only romantic love, a carnival worker who drowned before her eyes when a partying crowd onshore mistook his desperate pleas for habitual clowning. Amid the grim reality, McPherson's characters take childlike delight in simple things and maintain a giggly sense of humor. Bessie's father Marvin, unseen but for his shadow through a glass-brick wall, has been dying for two decades -- "real slow," Bessie explains with a hint of asperity, "so I don't miss anything." He still chortles in glee on seeing beams of light bounce off a hand-held mirror and play around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whole Point of Life | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Energy is a big theme in alternative healing, but it has no real equivalent in conventional medicine (except for the fact that all living things generate weak electromagnetic fields). "Unseen, unmeasurable energy has been observed by many cultures throughout history," says William Anderson, an acupuncturist in Chicago. "In India they call it prana. In the Soviet Union, bioplasm. Some call it life force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why New Age Medicine Is Catching On | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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