Word: rima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dazzling the British with hugely energetic, part sentimental and part brutal monuments. Epstein's bull-bold, pink alabaster Adam made strong men blush, girls giggle, and dowagers howl for blood. "I saw my subject," Epstein rumblingly explained, mankind." "as His the contorted fount of female all nude, Rima, was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin in 1925. As he pulled the cord, the Prime Minister was heard to exclaim...
Poking about Hanuabada Village, a Port Moresby native quarter, Hubbard came across the village council clerk, Rima Gavera, sitting at a battered desk, engrossed in his reading. The reading matter: TIME. Clerk Gavera, a native Papuan, explained that he is a faithful reader of TIME (as are 1,000 other New Guineans), with a special interest. "I like stories about satellites," he said, "and TIME has the best ones." The other New Guinea tale from Correspondent Hubbard is reported in PRESS, Roll-Your-Own Newspaper...
...Green, Kessel's prose comes out as National Geographic exclamatory. Kessel has an eye and nose for Africa, from the way Masai warriors dress their hair (with red clay) to the construction of a native hut (from cow dung). But apparently he was trying to crossbreed Lolita with Rima, the bird-girl, and to enhance the result with the mystical animal overtones of Romain Gary's The Roots of Heaven. He professes to see Patricia as a study in "the passage from innocence to non-innocence." But the reader who, like the monkey, pulls at Kessel...
ORIGINAL SIN (179 pp.)-Giose Rima-nelli-Random House...
...bullet of a man with an independent eye and a longstanding reputation as one of the bad boys of art. "The man in the street is a fool," he once declared. And the public has usually returned the insult; shocked art lovers once set on Epstein's early Rima, a lumpish, bas-relief nude, and painted it green. But in recent years, both Sculptor Epstein and his critics have mellowed a bit. Last week, after a look at a Tate Gallery show spanning his life's work, London was ready to accept Epstein for the intense and skillful...