Word: canto
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Variety, which has 13 full-time reporters, three editors and one columnist, is celebrated, too, for its use of such exotic locutions as "canto" for week, "cleffer" for songwriter, "w.k." for well known and "ankled" for quit. The paper faithfully records the cross-continent comings and goings of celebrities, and covered one of the great upheavals of the '70s with the one-line note, "D.C. to L.A.: Richard M. Nixon...
Even pretentious people like pizza, and at Bel Canto 928 Mass Ave.) you can ruin a perfectly good mound of grease and tomato sauce with bean sprouts or broccoli. The pies themselfs are exemplary. Other options are all within a couple hundred yards of the Yard. Harvard Pizza and Pinnochio's for quick service, Uno's for a full meal; deep-dish Chicago-style and Regine's for lukewarm cardboard...
...opera calls for two mezzos with a command of the bel-canto style. The Houston production is fortunate to have Marilyn Home in the role of Malcolm and equally lucky to have Frederica von Stade as Elena...
Both are mistresses of bel canto and equal to its cascading vocal fireworks...
...term singing actress was virtually made for her. She opened up the territory of bel canto that was to be explored by Sills and Sutherland. An equal achievement was her interpretation of the war-horses-Lucia, Tosca-so that the weariest ear could hear them as new works of art. Her musical values were the strictest and most scrupulous. She sang with complete fidelity to the composer and his idiom; yet the human essence of each heroine shone through her interpretation. Audiences felt that they were seeing Norma or Violetta. Hers was not a conventionally "beautiful" voice, like that...