Word: brio
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Somber as it is, Noon Wine induced a special glow, partly because of Director Peckinpah's achievement in adhering to the bluntness of the tragedy, partly because of the ungirdled brilliance of his players. Robards, bedecked with a massive home-grown mustache, spread backwoods brio all over the crusty landscape, and Olivia de Havilland, all frailty and flutteriness, tottered after him without losing a step. Author Porter was astonished that show busi ness could be so kind. "After what they did to my poor Ship of Fools," she said last week, "I was just crushed. I didn...
...allied wives to a seaside archaeological site where 15th century artifacts had been partially exposed in advance so that the party could discover them, like so many Easter eggs. Lady Bird turned up several small vases. Imelda, wearing purple stretch pants and a printed purple top with all the brio that Emilio Pucci could have hoped for when he designed them, leaped into a trench and unearthed a burial vase...
...housed in Lincoln Center, stands to lose $500,000 per annum in rent on the proposed office building; worse yet, the Met would have to pay a pretty penny just to keep its old home in repair. Taking all that into account, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, 78, reported con brio in the U.S. House of Representatives: "By saving the building, they may destroy opera in New York." Besides, "some of the members of this citizens' group would think Puccini was the name of a spaghetti...
...salvaging is the vigor and sheer melodic beauty of the score. Though Verdi the patriot worked at odds with Verdi the composer, the fervor of his convictions could occasionally inspire him as well. The opening aria "Let us be free," for example, is charged with the kind of youthful brio that was to come to full flower in Rigoletto, written five years later. Fresh, forcefully direct, the Attila score was polished for six months by Conductor Amaducci, until each facet sparkled. The result was worthy of a setting in any opera house...
John Cunningham gets about as much out of this role as there is in it. He comes on looking like something from a dentifrice advertisement and breezes through the part with unflagging brio, brilliance and briskness. As Kate, Ruby Dee enters appropriately in a flaming red gown and black hat with red panache, and proceeds to convey something of a hip-swinging tigress...