Word: appassionata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will the general succeed in this nefarious scheme? Will Evil Eye Fleagle (Al Nesor) perpetrate a Triple Whammy on po' Li'l Abner? Will Appassionata von Climax (Stella Stevens) catch him in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day Race? Will Li'l Abner ackchelly have to (sob!) marry up wif "a female of THUH OPPOSITE SEX," thereby yielding her a half interest in Yokumberry Tonic? And if he does, what will happen to po' Daisy Mae (Leslie Parrish...
...Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel-was studded with wrong notes and blurred acrobatics. But it also had the kind of galvanizing effects that only a first-rate musical mind and heart can convey to an audience. Richter-Haaser's approach, particularly in the "Appassionata," was heroic, his tone boldly ringing, his rhythmic drive irresistible. In the Stravinsky piece, he may have lacked the proper corky bite, but his Brahms had a propulsive, thunderous intensity that swept his audience into a roar of applause...
...lofty principles, Ty Ty sometimes simply cannot understand how the rest of his family can be so beastly. His daughter Dahlin' Jill (Fay Spain) is the sort of Georgia peach that any man can pluck-and several do. His daughter-in-law Griselda (played by Tina Louise, the Appassionata von Climax of Broadway's Li'l Abner) plays her most important role in the hay with her brother-in-law (Aldo Ray), an event that, for one quaint reason or another, gives the fellow's wife almost as much satisfaction as it gives Griselda...
...been reading all the "fumetti" for years, but of all the heroes, the White Sheik is her favorite. On her honeymoon in Rome with a healthy Italian villager, she takes off in search of the White Sheik to whom she has already written under the name of "Bamba Appassionata" (Passionate Doll). Somehow Wanda gets thrown into proximity with a secretary who advises her that "To dream is to live!", and then a moving van, and then many pseudo-Arabs and neo-Moorish hordes, and, finally, the White Sheik's own secluded sail boat. In her semi-conscious wake her distressed...
These failings did not badly mar the Appassionata or the closing Beethoven Sonata Op. 111, but they seriously detracted from Brahm's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. This work is rarely performed, partly because of its extreme difficulty and partly because it represents a far more abstract approach than the familiar Variations on a Theme by Paganini. Levy's playing lacked the rhythmic urgency needed to keep the Handel set form foundering, in its own intellectual richness. And a lack of clarity first apparent in the swirling Appassionata finale let Brahms' Fugue become a hodge-podge...