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...outfit made a pretty sight crossing the Red River on the highway from Hugo, Okla., where it holes up between November and March, to Paris, Texas, where the show would open the 1986 season. They numbered among them 80 brightly painted vehicles, 250 colorful people, a hippo, a rhino, a giraffe, assorted lions, tigers, llamas, horses, donkeys, zebras, elephants and goats. The last to leave home base was the owner, D.R. Miller, who felt rather special and unhurried about this, his 50th year in the catbird seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: a Big Top Moves Out | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...reached sales of nearly $100 million last year, and Hasbro's Transformers, which brought in $114 million, have been challenged this year by two riveted rivals, Voltron and MASK. Produced by Cincinnati's Kenner Products, MASK is a line of seven ordinary-looking vehicles that bristle with hidden weapons. Rhino Rig, the flagship, converts from a common truck into a fearsome fighting machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Fun Factories | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

This star-laden revival at the Circle in the Square Theater, the first Broadway mounting of Design for Living since its 1933 premiere, refuses to tiptoe. Instead it galumphs, on thundering rhino feet, at the pitch and tempo of farce. Frenzy worked fine for Director George C. Scott in his production of Coward's Present Laughter two years ago. Not so here, where the bonhomie is so forced that it comes across as bullying. Though Langella and Julia occasionally mine the text for subterranean veins of grace and melancholy, Clayburgh storms about with the booming baritone and great-lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rhino Feet | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...more than 20 years, Novelist and Naturalist Peter Matthiessen has been a powerful voice crying in, and about, the wilderness. With unruffled grace he has defended threatened species such as the African rhino (Sand Rivers) and a Stone Age tribe in New Guinea (Under the Mountain Wall), whose territory is being claimed by industrialized societies. In his 15th book, however, the author explores a tragedy closer to home. The territory is the Great Plains, and the endangered species is the American Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Hills | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...chipmunk's mainstream pop doesn't satiate your more adventuresome taste, try the Christmas Rock collection on Rhino Records. Likely to become a collectors item, this limited edition on a green, Christmas-tree-shaped disk features one of the hottest punk groups around. The Dragons, as well as California surf-rock veterans the Malibooz. The former let loose with an ear-shattering version of "Silent Night" that makes the infamous Neil Young rendition sound like chamber music. As for the Mals, they make Christmas in California a real treat. Who cares that there's no snow in Malibu. When Santa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roll Over Jingle Bells | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

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