Word: irma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less complex than the title characters of Laverne and Shirley. Nonetheless, Greenberg siphons all of Watergate through this couple, and, worse still, he dramatizes the banalities of their domestic life. John's premarital flings with other women (including a French floozy who seems to have stepped out of Irma La Douce) get more screen time than the Ervin hearings. The Deans' bouts with alcohol are presented with the florid excess of an old Hollywood weeper like /'// Cry Tomorrow...
Land Reform Before Development: Two Emperical Models--Prof. Irma Adelman, University of California Berkeley, 26 Trowbridge...
...Nowadays," says Lang, "women often start with elaborate recipes but have no idea how to make a basic cream sauce." Therefore, he recommends that every cook have a step-by-step volume like Irma Rombauer and Marion Becker's Joy of Cooking (Bobbs-Merrill; $10.95 hardcover; New American Library; $4.95 paper) or, for the more advanced practitioner, Jacques Pépin's La Technique (Quadrangle; $25). He would add not only recipe books, but also several volumes that concern the philosophy and history of food. Lang's choices...
...DIED. Irma Duncan, 80, adopted daughter and disciple of Isadora Duncan, the flamboyant founder of modern dance; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in Germany, at seven Irma Ehrich-Grimme joined Duncan's school at Grünewald as a scholarship student. She and five other "Isadorables" were later legally adopted by the famous dancer. In 1921 Irma helped her mother found a dancing school in the U.S.S.R., and after Isadora's death in 1927 brought to the U.S. a troupe of Soviet girls. She became a U.S. citizen and opened, in Manhattan, the first American Isadora Duncan School...
...hobbled by her bleeding blister in Chicago, MacLaine took a shot of novocain, cut out the heel in her right shoe and completed her six-night sellout engagement at the Arie Crown Theater (4,500 seats). Her 80-minute bittersweet reflections on life ranged from a poignant rendition of Irma La Douce to an upbeat, gently self-mocking tune titled If There's a Wrong Way, Nobody Does It Like Me. Backed up by four dancers and a 25-piece band, she kicked, tapped, whirled and strutted her way flawlessly through a string of numbers. "When...