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Word: capo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jones) is snowed by the inscrutable Bogart, and Bogie's wife (Lollobrigida) is similarly attracted to the Britisher. The swindle plan nears success a dozen times, but falls apart each time. At the end the same shot of the square appears, and the film closes in a boisterous da capo...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Beat the Devil | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...conventions of the genre are utilized with unabashed audacity. The recitative and aria da capo turn up all over the place with genuinely satiric twists, as well as cadences which would have sent Rossini right out of the auditorium. The proceedings were further disrupted by the intrusion of a full-fledged jazz number. Mr. Perkins has an especially disarming command of dissonance, which he uses tastefully and moderately to underline the humorous aspects of the music...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Divertimento and The Poor Sailor | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

Male Performance: Eugene Gervasi, as Corydon in Millay's "Aria Da Capo"; Harold Scott, as The Son in "The Purification"; James Stinson, as Herby in Lawrence's "Six Strings...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Harvard Theatre: 1956-1957 | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

...room for them. He is confident that there soon will be room; last week he rejoiced at the news that Naples' church and civil authorities had granted permission for him to move his shelter out of the slums and up to a site he has picked out on Capo di Monte, which overlooks the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Spinning Tops | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Safe in Sicily. Said 50-year-old Luigi Crevatini on finding that his house was on the wrong side of the frontier: "Until 1944 I lived in Fiume. Then I saw how things were going, and I moved to Capo-distria. When Capodistria became Zone

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Line | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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