Word: rima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge-eyed Donna Poitras, who overcomes her thankless ingenue part with a lovely vibrato and a flair for playing a dumb blonde. The six girls in the chorus of courtesans have, as the French say, beaucoup de monde au balcon. Not only are they gorgeous, but they dance well. Rima Wolff, who choreographed their big number, has given them a bumper crop of grinds and shakes...
...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...