Word: attila
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...Attila storms City Opera, new Traviata bows...
...longer. The Verdi revival of the past decade has focused on the early operas; all but three are now available on records, and enterprising opera companies are putting works like Oberto and Giovanna d'Arco on the stage. At the New York City Opera, Attila has taken the State Theater in a blaze of barbaric splendor: the composer's ninth opera, it stands revealed as an uneven but vivid work. Those with more traditional tastes in Verdi could go across Lincoln Center to the Metropolitan Opera, which last week introduced a handsome new production by Tanya Moiseiwitsch...
...nickname's given name), but it is generally used in a formal, titular sense, and not as anything one actually would call someone else. A nickname may be at once demeaning and endearing (see New Zealand's Prime Minister, "Piggy" Muldoon). But a sobriquet keeps its distance. Attila's of for example, were alternately "The Terror of the World" and "The Scourge of God," depending on his be havior. No one called him Hunny...
Pfeiffer's troubles at NBC began almost as soon as she arrived. She was quickly faced with a nasty $1 million scandal involving expense-account fraud and kickbacks among field-unit managers. Pfeiffer, who once spent six months in a convent, earned herself the sobriquet "Attila the Nun" by rooting out the wrongdoers with the wrath of God and a team of lawyers and accountants that ran up a tab of more than $2 million. "It looks like you sent in the whole damned Marines to rescue a cat," Vice Chairman Richard Salant reportedly quipped at a staff meeting...
Worst of all, Griffiths seems to have failed at assembling a strong management team. NBC Chairman Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, who became known within the company as " Attila the Nun" because of her strong personal style and onetime residence in a convent, is rumored...