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Before her hypnosis dance ends 15 more dancers join her. Against sets of changing colors--hot pink to floaresent green to bright orange--three groups of dancers move to the rapid beating. Each group does rib, hip and arm isolations in sequence. They continue to dance in cycles--spending to the floor contracting, relaxing and leaping. Regardless of the speed of the steps, the dancers are always synchronized. The rich, full impressions on colors and rapid-fire movements are absolutely stunning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Now That's Really Dancing | 2/8/1985 | See Source »

...down, the sinner has not. As Jonah and his shipmates are buffeted by the tempest, the wind seems to blow from the page, and the great fish that consumes him soon turns from a monster into a seaborne aquarium. One half expects to see a sign on its vaulted rib cage warning OCCUPANCY BY MORE THAN 1,000 FISH AND 1 PROPHET IS UNLAWFUL AND DANGEROUS. Despite his whimsy, Illustrator-Narrator Hutton violates neither religious nor literary scruples. Happy endings, after all, are not exclusive to fairy tales; even the Bible has them, now and again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Wonders For the Young | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...sized smash, but its opening night last week, in Papp's tiny Anspacher Theater, was a modest, almost bashful, success. This is petit opera, not grand, but there is a clear gain in warmth and intimacy at the level of drama. The singers use body mikes instead of heroic rib cages and Pavarottal diaphragms, but they are young and good-looking, and they have no trouble seeming appropriately broke and love-sopped (nor in delivering Spencer's sometimes jarring lines...

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

...time, the expedition crew, under the joint leadership of Leakey, director of the National Museums of Kenya, and Alan Walker, professor of cell biology and anatomy at the Johns Hopkins University medical school, began to turn up other whisky-colored skeletal pieces in the nearby sandy debris: first a rib, then a scapula, then a hip. As the collection grew, it became astonishingly clear that they had underestimated their initial discovery. Kimeu had, in fact, struck paleontological gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasure on the Nariokotome | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...Devil's Bag. So he commended one horse but owned the other. As Devil's Bag's form was declining, Swale was winning the Florida Derby, and Hancock was caught between a frown and a smile. Meanwhile, Stephens fell ill from emphysema, compounded by a rib-rattling fall and exasperated by the collapse of the special horse. "Devil's Bag just never found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small and wan, dappled old Woody said with the brave gleam of all winning trainers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swale on the Rail for the Roses | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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