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Given these facts, the response of University officials (off the record) and Mrs. Bunting (on the record) has been both realistic and constructive. Mrs. Bunting has not pledged implaccable opposition to the roue, if the MBTA does indeed select it. What she has said is that she wants to be convinced that this is the best possible path for the subway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Radcliffe Tunnel | 5/2/1966 | See Source »

...Debbie's manhood, there are few surprises and even fewer laughs in this sex scramble based on George Axelrod's Broadway flop. Charlie is a rakish Hollywood screenwriter who has a way with other men's wives. Shot by a jealous husband (Walter Matthau), the roue returns to life in flesh-toned Reynolds wrap, presumably to see how the other half lives. "It's the Old Testament!" shouts Curtis as the miracle dawns. "The tables have turned-there's a grandeur about it that's staggering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Androgynous Farce | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...Carol Haney, a stylist of spoof with the wit to be brief. In a wry ballad of self-castigation, Comedienne Barbara Baxley kisses the pleasures of sex and the single girl goodbye while Jack ("Grand Knowing You") Cassidy is the cat's whiskers dipped in cream as the roue who drove her to ruing. Vitally integrated with the book are the lyrics and music of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, who have produced a light operatic score in which song follows song as naturally as bud bursts into leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Spring Is Here | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Tales of Hoffmann he has four roles (Andres, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio and Frantz) and four rapid-fire makeup changes. This week in Boston, where he is visiting with the Met, De Paolis is scheduled to appear not only as Goro and Spoletta but as Alaindoro, the skirt-chasing old roue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Man of Many Parts | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...everybody who has a brother at Harvard also has his record, you hear about how he got kicked out for criticizing the Administration. Some people will tell you he's a Communist, others think he was a professor of some prominence who was too much of a light-hearted roue to stay within the academic confines of Cambridge...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: 'The Guy Who Taught Us Math...' | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

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