Word: ribbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modes, she also wrote two hit plays in the 1940s (Over Twenty-One and Years Ago), a novel (Shady Lady, 1982), three volumes of autobiography and, with her husband of 43 years, Director and Novelist Garson Kanin, a host of antic romances, including the Hepburn-Tracy vehicles Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...