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...minor roles, Mr. Kaplan and Misses Meglathery and Levin present well-carved cameos.. And Rima Wolff's dances help pump up this souffle that didn't quite rise, but which gives a good taste of the early Restoration stage...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: The Man of Mode | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 11/12/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man for the Ages | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Volcanic Knight | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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