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...doesn't get a job. An immigrant matriarch, her next question is pencil-point sharp: "Why did you go to college?" His riposte: "To avoid being asked questions like this after high school." One of the distinctly appealing aspects of Table Settings is its benign ami ability. Even when Lapine's characters verge on cartoons, he presents them as en dearingly human in their follies, desires and genetically nutty ways. His direction of his own play is brisk, and his cast is close to flawless. A special huzzah should be raised to the two kids, who manage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sunny Kooks | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...only suitable for nouveau riche butchers, high-mark call girls and mobsters. They were just too large, too showy and too expensive compared with the better-quality German models. Now, the weak dollar and the U.S. automakers' new enthusiasm for safety and economy are beginning to make the Ami Strassenkreuzer (literally, Yankee street cruiser) a fast-selling status symbol among the young professional elite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Love Affair in Germany | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Ami De Montreux Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1978 | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...chuckling): I demand you: When, dear Amy (cher ami), do gentleman trains go toward Lady Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waxed Elbow | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Polydoxy is starting small, though Reines maintains that many Jews subscribe to its beliefs without realizing it. The Institute of Creative Judaism, formed in 1971 to promote Reines' philosophy, so far has enlisted only 75 rabbis and ten synagogues. Congregation Or Ami in Richmond, Va., the first synagogue formed to practice polydoxy, began six years ago with six families and now has 100, many previously unaffiliated with any synagogue. The movement has also spread overseas. Rabbi Anthony Holz, who recently returned from a congregation in Pretoria, South Africa, summarizes his polydox outlook: "Fifty percent of what we know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jews with Nobody to Worship | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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