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...PLAY'S bawdiness and humor are over-emphasized in this production: the citizen Donado (William Fuller) could have fumed at his foolish nephew Bergetto without blustering like one of the magistrate-midgets who greet Judy Garland in the land of Oz. Geralyn Williams as Putana, Annabella's buxom attendant, is a parody, in every stagy sense of the term, of the ribald nurse. Maeve Kinkead as Hippolita-the sex-starved Wronged Woman of the piece-storms around like a steam engine out of control until releasing the last painful gasps of her already overstrained voice on a mobile platform which...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: Theatre 'Tis Pity She's a Whore at the Loeb this weekend and next | 3/27/1971 | See Source »

...Minister the country has known, decided recently that tempers had cooled sufficiently for him to step down, as he had long been meaning to do. Thus last week he handed in his resignation to the newly installed Paramount Ruler, or King, Abdul Halim-who also happens to be his nephew. Replacing the Tunku as Prime Minister was his longtime political protégé, Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: The Processional of Power | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...insisted that he had bruised her only while attempting to revive her after she had taken an overdose of barbiturates. Last week a panel of three judges sided with the defendant and ruled that "no charges should be pressed. After telephoning the good news to his uncle, Niarchos' Nephew Constantine Dracopoulos announced to newsmen: "Mr. Niarchos never doubted that Greek justice, with its reputation for strict impartiality and fairness, would finally vindicate him." The prosecutor can appeal to a higher court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 28, 1970 | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...After his eyesight had been injured by stray sparks from the forge, he joined his family in Madrid and eventually became a baker. Some of the patterns characteristic of Spanish breads can be observed in his sculpture. "All his life he was kneading and sculpting." says Alberto's nephew Jorge, who grew up in his uncle's apartment in Moscow. "I think there came a time when the two fused in his consciousness, and the leaven he shaped and carved by day passed forever into the texture and design of his nature forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: End of an Exile | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...mixed in." One by one the spitters toe the line, legs spread. They draw two fingers to the ends of their mouths, rock back like drawn bowstrings and let fly toward a distant spittoon. Don Snyder reaches the finals but loses the accuracy contest to Hulon Craft, a distant nephew of old George. Hulon comes to within 1 ½ inches of a spittoon 15 feet away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: The 16th Annual Tobacco Spit-Off | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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