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...fuzzy one, since in so many religions--from ancient Dionysian worship to modern-day Brazilian Candomble and storefront Pentecostalism--the best way to contact the deity or deities is to get up and dance and sing and shout. The climax of the ritual celebration was not a drunken stupor but ecstatic union with the gods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for Your Right to Party | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...trip to Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, playing until Dec. 30 at Boston’s recently renovated Opera House. After sipping eggnog on the Green Line to Northeastern, sit back and relax as Mother Ginger, Marzipan, and the Sugar Plum Fairies hypnotize you into a psychedelic stupor of lust. Beware, though, as the ballet has a tendency to bring out the worst in the closeted pretentious: should your date say anything about the Boston Ballet’s failure to live up to his/her Lincoln Center expectations, run away as quickly as possible...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Out! | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...locally owned, and its Maldivian-designed villas feature natural materials like stone, teak and coconut-thatched roofs. Water villas come with four-poster beds and stairs that lead directly into the ocean. Deluxe villas include lush landscaped outdoor bathrooms. And if you need further opportunity to slide into a stupor, check out Sen Spa, which offers such packages as a white-sand-and-coconut scrub followed by a massage that almost put me into a coma. When I ask my villa neighbors, Giuseppina Orlanduccio and Agustin Vazquez, both 22, what they like about Baros, Vazquez leans back on his outdoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise Found | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...first paper that she suggested everyone e-mail their grades to an impartial third party, who would then relay the grade distribution to the group. English Prof. Gordon Teskey was spotted walking arm-in-arm with a lady. A punch on a punch trip, in a drunken stupor, had his foot run over by a taxi in NYC on Friday night. He yelled for a minute and fell on the sidewalk, but survived—at least until the third event. A young lady in Ec 1010a fainted during the midterm. We extend our sympathies. Dean Gross?...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: chatter | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...weak scene and approximately 30 seconds of musical interlude, during a song sung by the apparition of Bruce Springsteen. Hornby meditates on the nature of male self-centeredness and inability to grow up; Kitt and lyricist Amanda Green’s score simply lulls the audience into a bored stupor. (Quite literally, my date for the evening fell asleep before intermission...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let's Get It On? No, Let's Leave the Show | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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