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Rip Torn
TORN, Rip 1931– PERSONAL Full name, Elmore Rual Torn, Jr.; born Febr... Read more |
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Rip Current
Rip current A rip current is a narrow, river-like channel of water moving away from the surf (breaking) zone and back toward sea. Rip currents can travel up to 3 mph (4.8 kph) and stretch 100 ft (30.5 m) wide. Some cease just past the breaking surf; others extend a thousand feet offshore. In some... Read more |
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Maelstrom
maelstrom, a term commonly accepted as meaning a whirlpool, or a great storm. In fact, it is a strong current which rips past the southern end of Moskenaes Island in the Lofoten group off the west coast of Norway. Also known as the Maskenstrom, it is marked on a map of the area which appears in the... Read more |
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William Bayle Bernard
Bernard, William Bayle (1807–75), dramatist who helped popularize the stage type of the eccentric rural American. Among the 100 successful plays that he wrote were The Dumb Belle (1831); The Kentuckian; or, A Trip to New York (1833), a revision of Paulding's Lion of the West; His Last Legs... Read more |
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George Whitefield Chadwick
George Whitefield Chadwick 1854-1931, American composer, b. Lowell, Mass., studied in Germany. In 1882 he joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, of which he was director from 1897 until his death. His chief compositions are the overtures The Miller's Daughter (1884) and Rip... Read more |
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Till
Till Till is the general term for any sediments that were deposited solely by glacial ice . Till is distinguished from other glacial deposits formed by forces other than ice, such as glaciofluvial (or glacial melt water ) deposits. A similar term is moraine, but it connotes more specific... Read more |
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David Dubinsky
DUBINSKY, DAVID 1892-1982 P RESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION Leadership In the early months of 1933 the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) stood virtually in ruins. Internal factionalism had ripped the union apart. By the end... Read more |
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R. Crumb
Grunge Grunge fashions, inspired by the look of popular Seattle-based rock bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, were a fashion sensation of the early to mid-1990s. The casual street look eventually became incorporated into the designs of high fashion. The term grunge was originally a slang term for... Read more |
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National Beverage Corp
National Beverage Corporation One North University DriveFort Lauderdale, Florida 33324U.S.A.Telephone: (954) 581-0922Fax: (954) 473-4710Web site: http://www.nbcfiz.com Public Company Incorporated: 1985Employees: 1,400Sales: $516.8 million (2006)Stock Exchanges: AmericanTicker Symbol:... Read more |
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Foothill Music Theatre presents a rip snortin' 'Annie Get Your Gun'
...version of the 1946 Broadway production starring the great Ethel Merman. What a marvelous, triple-threat singing talent...actors really enjoying themselves in the multiple roles and rip-snortin' dance routines. Butler considered himself... |
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'Running With Scissors' Gets Its Edge From the Dame
...of the subversive pleasures of the movies over the years has been watching senior actresses let 'er rip in their big dame turns. Ethel Merman patented the role on Broadway and moved it to the screen, Bette Davis blew the lights out in three or... |
 "The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)")
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All about 'Annie'/ Sharpshooter center of old-fashioned musical
...snuff a candle flame, and rip a cigarette out of her...mouth. She died in 1926. Ethel Merman, May 16, 1946: "Annie...written as a star vehicle for Merman, and older theater fans...biggest Broadway hit of Merman's career. The original... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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DALY SHINES IN 'GYPSY'
...memorable strictly because of Ethel Merman's star turn as Mama...now, out from under the Merman legend, it seems durable...sensitivity (weak as it is). Merman did it, but it's the...Turn," the performance rips up the house. Alone on... |
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'AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' ' STILL SWINGS
...of rollicking, hip-swinging, rip-roaring fun in 30 numbers that...permits her to sing with the gusto of Ethel Merman and the tenderness of Billie Holiday...Terri White sings with the gusto of Ethel Merman and the tenderness of Billie ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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POPE CAN'T CHANGE EVERYTHING
...this comment from a modern youth: "Rip Van Winkle must have had a lot of...of Newfane had correct answers. Ethel Merman, Jeanmarie and Mitzi Gaynor were...version of "Anything Goes." Ms. Merman and Ida Lupino were in the 1936 version... |
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`Anything' Goes Flat; At National, Uggams & Co. Lack Verve
...by Leslie Uggams, Rex Smith and Rip Taylor. Uggams gives the impression...songs continue to belong to the late Ethel Merman, for whom they were written and...much as raising her voice. (When Merman actually raised her voice, whole... |
 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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CALL THIS 'MADAM' A ROLLICKING GOOD TIME.(L.A. Life) (theater review)
...legendary trumpet-voiced Broadway star Ethel Merman that was also a political spoof of...the unadulterated vocal power of Merman (no one ever has), but she instills...one true showstopper is Berlin's rip-roaring second-act contrapuntal... |
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'ANYTHING GOES' DISAPPEARS
...role of Reno Sweeney (originated by Ethel Merman in 1934 and played by Patti LuPone...t dance. (I wasn't around for Ethel.) But more deficient than anything...Night." Behind him in ineptitude is Rip Taylor, who plays Moonface Martin... |
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Match Dame
...hidden naughtiness when flirting-with the waiters, and rips into a kind of comic Fanny Brice/ Lucille Ball in the...choreographer John Sheridan, whose credits go back as far as Ethel Merman. He recently choreographed Sally Struthers in Dolly at... |
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