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Word: brighella (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
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...charming that even Church-supported French nobility were seduced into laughter. Impresario Flaminio Scala concocted such a dynamic group by painstakingly typecasting each member perfectly. So all they needed to do--Armanda the grotesque but sharp-witted dwarf, Pantalone the cross miserly Jew, Dottore the pompous doctor of quackery, Brighella the spiteful gadfly, and the others--was get up on stage and play themselves to the hilt...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: A Nest of Empty Boxes | 3/23/1974 | See Source »

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