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Particularly notable numbers were the amazing synchronicity and completely whack sensuality of "The Great Gig in the Sky," as well as the entirely trippy, hippy and self-consciously stoned energy of "Money." Jim Augustine '01 and Elizabeth Waterhouse '00 deserve special notice for their performance Saturday of the powerful and extremely moving duet to "time:" showing unique awareness of each other's smallest movements, their two bodies moved virtually as one as they dance and romanced across the stage...

Author: By Erin Billinges, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PERPETUAL MOTIOBN: | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...risen for a basket of stocks of equal value--avoiding any immediate capital-gains tax. A crush of financial firms, including Banker's Trust, Salomon Smith Barney, J.P. Morgan and Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette, are launching swap funds right now. They aren't entirely new. But Congress took a whack at limiting them two years ago, and they're resurfacing with a new look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spread Your Bets | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...after Joanna politely bummed a cigarette, she nonchalantly shrugged off his advances. Paul insisted that my friend had a "stutter" and that she slurred her speech, although she had uttered all of two words. However, he quickly came to the conclusion that his own diction was out-of-whack from a beer intake of gargantuan proportions. At that point, Joanna signaled for our stage-right exit...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: Fun Fun Fun: A Trip to the Good Time Emporium | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...after Joanna politely bummed a cigarette, she nonchalantly shrugged off his advances. Paul insisted that my friend had a "stutter" and that she slurred her speech, although she had uttered all of two words. However, he quickly came to the conclusion that his own diction was out-of-whack from a beer intake of gargantuan proportions. At that point, Joanna signaled for our stage-right exit...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...plans to write his thesis on the effects of Pilates on the spine. His aging boomer clients who grunted their way through the no-pain-no-gain workouts of the '80s are turning to the regimen as welcome therapy. Anderson has observed, for example, that knee muscles out of whack because of a trauma experienced years earlier "can be retrained and the process of degeneration significantly decreased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Stretchers | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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