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Anyone who’s seen “The Donkey Show” will tell you: it’s bat-shit crazy. The concept sounds like something from the world’s campiest, most hallucinogen-happy comedy improv troupe: “Alright, darling, I want ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’ told in the style of ’70s disco—with roller skates, and glitter, and no pants...

Author: By Alexander J.B. Wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What It Takes To Be a Donkey | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

Looking to take a lighthearted daytrip with the blockmates in honor of the upcoming Pagan holy day? If so, you happen to be in luck—New England contains some of the campiest Halloween entertainment in the history of ever. Witch’s Woods in Westford, Mass. features a haunted hayride, two haunted houses—a medieval castle and an abandoned mansion—and a mysterious attraction called the “3-D Keeper’s Crypt,” which the website solemnly promises will elevate visitors to “a whole...

Author: By Teddy R. Sherrill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ghouls and Goblins | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...there are arts at Harvard, and that's important because Harvard is Arts and Sciences, so there'd better be some arts! And as long as we hear that it's still going on, everything's fine." Going to the Board of Governors of Harvard University was the campiest adventure of my life...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Food Fight | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

Throughout the evening, the audience thrusts itself so insistently and so happily on the actors that Private Lives becomes less a revival of a wonderful play, than a theatrical event of the campiest sort that proves more than a little embarrassing. Apparently, Taylor and Burton's private lives are all too public, and everyone involved--from the two principals to the balcony whistlers--seems excited about the possibility of making the cover of an upcoming People magazine...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Invasion of Privacy | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

Great Britain's Princess Anne dresses like "a royal auto mechanic." Rockmaster Elton John "would be the campiest spectacle in the Rose Parade if he entered." Singer Bette Midler seems unaware that "pantaloons went out with hoop skirts." So says Hollywood Designer Richard Blackwell, 53, in his 16th annual "worst-dressed" list. Blackwell, who named Jacqueline Onassis among the worst-dressed women of 1971, gave the top award this year to Daughter Caroline Kennedy, 18. She looks like "a shaggy dog in pants," snipped Blackwell, adding, "Who says bad taste isn't inherited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 19, 1976 | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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