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Word: minimize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wait a Minim! is an ingratiating musical revue that is light of hand, light of heart, and light of foot, possibly because the cast is barefoot most of the time. This sparklingly talented company (five men, three girls) seems to share its songs rather than sell them, knows how to sail its jokes across the footlights rather than slug them, and times its spoofy skits to the precise half note (which is what a minim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jumpin' Jo'burg | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...troubled waters of South African race policy receive a scattering of satiric pebbles in Minim, but the all-white cast is scarcely in a position to throw critical stones. Indeed, their imitations of black Africans seem a trifle anemic, especially in a closing drum-and-stomp session. Otherwise, this troupe is so gifted that it may never see Johannesburg again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jumpin' Jo'burg | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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