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Word: rowse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE NEXT MORNING'S weather--the wind and rain in New Jersey and the occasional tornadoes further south--should have told us all we needed to know. Instead we drove through the drizzle to Teterboro, a town with ten inhabitants, an efficient (as we would discover) police force, and a...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Thumbing the Friendly Skies | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

BUT WHAT SELLARS LACKS in cynical common-sense about the hard necessities of direction, he more than makes up in style. He has given the whole play a facade of try-anything spontaneity, and daredevil and slightly mad improvisation. Sellars' poster for the play is an unpretentious and quite ineffective...

Author: By Ta-knang Chang, | Title: A Play On Words | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

There are some technical problems. Too much action, dancing in particular, takes place at stage level, where it is invisible to all but the first three rows. Some scenes are unimaginatively lit--the stage is flooded with light during a few forest scenes, when shadows and odd lighting angles, suggestive...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Some Enchanted Evening | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

Those who have never seen Dolly gasp. That mountain of a teased blond wig and the hot-pink, jeweled jumpsuit are spectacular. Only five feet tall, she totters atop five-inch gold heels. Swinging into All I Can Do, she catches the eyes of the people in the front rows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On the Rock Road with Dolly Parton | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

YOU CAN VIEW dreams as either tree farms or jungles. They can be logical, symmetrical and tame, set out in rows of trees that can always be distinguished from the untamed woods. Such neat dreams are a comfort to the tidy who enjoy right-angles and other intellectual exercises in...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Thickets of Enchantment and Illusion | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

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