Word: basse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GIORGIO Tozzi, 35, a tall (6 ft. 1 in.), big-shouldered Chicago-born bass, made his New York debut as Tarquinius in the 1949 Broadway production of Benjamin Britten's Rape of Lucretia, but after the short-lived Rape closed, Tozzi wound up a penniless student in Italy (he recalls being so weak from hunger that he could climb to his third-floor room only once a day). Since then, he has sung widely in Europe, last summer toured as Emile de Becque with Mary Martin in South Pacific. A onetime baritone, Tozzi has a deep, warm voice...
...boom triangle. Shucking off the mañana tradition, Ensenada laborers are working seven days a week to finish a $15 million deepwater port, a $3,500,000 cement factory and acres of new houses. Close to 4,000 workers are employed catching, cleaning and canning plentiful white sea bass, sardines, rock lobsters. A new cannery packs tomatoes and chili peppers grown on farms to the south. White-painted boats chug in and out of the harbor, carrying the guests of 44 new motels to sport-fishing grounds...
Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, 24 this week, reported to his three humble tutors on his studies of fish psychology. First, he had trained some salmon, bass and carp to associate their feeding time with the lighting of a red lamp. Having established a conditioned reflex which led the fish to expect food whenever the light was switched on. Akihito then impaired their vision by tinkering with their ophthalmic nerves. His scientific conclusion from the experiment (no surprise): the delicate operation caused the fish to "lose their previous ability to connect the lamp's red glow with food...
...since the opera singer is acted to the richly encrusted hilt by Eileen Herlie, a script that often plods as it perplexes, and that perplexes less and less as it proceeds, just manages to squeak through. With a stylish, long-discontinued look, Actress Herlie can rivet attention; with a bass-fiddle-deep laugh, she suddenly arouses laughter. The Guthrie treatment fares best when there is nothing much to treat: the air of secrecy proves more rewarding than the secret, the theatrical Herlie-burly than the philosophical coda. When the play finally turns serious, it seems, more than anything else, like...
CAROL STEVENS is a deep-purple (D below middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best...