Word: rip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petipa-Ivanov version of Swan Lake in Vienna. In his strong belief that "the Amazonian takeover" of the ballet has resulted in an appalling denigration of the male, Nureyev scissored Tchaikovsky's music, jiggered dances, and virtually reworked every number until the dreamy fairytale prince emerged as a rip-snorting hero who dominated both the dance and drama...
Good as His Word. Next day came the bit about the broads. Committee Investigator Samuel Scott told of a rip-roaring time Baker and a Puerto Rican business crony named Paul Aguirre had in New Orleans with a pair of lovelies last year. Baker and Aguirre, said Scott, went to the city to look over a housing development that offered investment possibilities, took with them Baker's secretary, Carole Tyler, and German-born Vamp Ellen Rometsch, who has since been deported. They wound up, said Scott, spending "several days partying...
...Penn State: the season's biggest football upset, roaring over, under, around and through second-ranked Ohio State 27-0. Only 3-4 on the season. Coach Rip Engle's Nittany Lions suddenly found their claws, held Ohio State to minus 14 yds. in the first half and five first downs all afternoon, while administering the Buckeyes' first goose egg in 45 games. Unbeaten Notre Dame hung on to its No. 1 ranking by standing off a second-half drive by inspired Pitt to win 17-15. Other scores: Michigan State 21 Purdue 7 Maryland 27 Navy...
...Rauschenberg a primordial pop artist, and now allows him to transcend pop's implicit danger of banality. He has reopened the question of whether or not artists-after 50 years of peering into the unconscious mind-can again approach the everyday world of facts, events, objects and images, rip them from their common contexts and give the familiar an unfamiliar beauty...
...balance the sky, maybe a basketball court, and playing on the court are several nuns and one of the nuns is wearing an ape suit with long red fur and spangles-forget that. Now, to get the color of the blossoms, does he go out into the orchard and rip from the tree the blossom and bring it back with him to his atelier-or pad, as you say-and look at it under the naked light bulb? No. He does not. He goes out into the orchard with his equipment -i.e., his eyes-and he sees the blossom...