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...music?nobody boos a sunset. But Mimi, the consumptive Parisian seamstress, has been a dying duck since the opera's first performance in 1896, and her fog-witted lover Rodolfo, the poet, has moped melodiously for the same stretch. A certain amount of dust has gathered. Only the fustiest of traditionalists would grouch at the news that Joseph Papp's musical irregulars from the New York Shakespeare Festival have decided to give Boheme an airing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Petit Opera, Not Grand | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...screenplay for Come Fly with Me is the work of William Roberts. He deserves the season's Joe Miller Award for being mostest with the fustiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coffee, Tea or Bilk? | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...rapid growth, the ambitious airs of the air corps and the armored force. The Germans in conquered Europe, the British in Africa had shown what this new combat team could do-and what could happen to nations which had no team, or a poor one. The fustiest officer in the U. S. Army could hardly ignore the lesson, nor fail to see that U. S. airmen and tankers were certain to demand a large and possibly dominant place in the new Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: TURTLES IN TRICOLOR | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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