Word: carmens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cents a Point. In the days that followed, while the King took the waters, he was asked his every wish. Music? He liked Carmen and Aïda. The local symphony changed its program and saved a row of seats. But on the appointed night, the King decided to stay home instead, so fascinated was he by the Japanese magician who had been brought in to amuse his youngest sons while he was at the concert...
Sugar Ray came down to his lakeside training camp trailing a drab crew-a couple of beefy sparring partners and a brace of trainers, all solemn and eager to pound the champ into proper shape for next week's bout with Challenger Carmen Basilio. Only the boss himself seemed to be a hangover from the high old times when he traveled with a clowning dwarf, a personal barber, his private golf pro and the one man a boxer needs least of all: a bodyguard...
Talking up some great fights now, Sugar allowed that after he takes care of Carmen Basilio he might still not be ready to retire. "I'm something of a thespian," he announced grandly, "and I've had offers from stage, screen and television. But first I'd like to fight a few nontitle fights. I'd like to go to Rome and fight for the Pope's charity. Then I'd like to put on an exhibition in Tel Aviv. Then I'd like the State Department to let me go to Russia...
...does directing opera differ from directing plays? (Guthrie staged the renovated Carmen at the Met.) "In opera there is far less inventing to be done by the director. The chief problem is dealing with people who are not actors and who resent acting, and with an ultra-conservative public. Also, a musical score says more about the finished product than the script of a play. Play actors have a more imaginative, personal contribution than musicians. Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is actually a musical aria, but the 'score' gives only the meaning, not the melody...
...units, some on motor scooters with girl friends behind, they forced shopkeepers out of stores, stopped buses and trolleys, ordering passengers to descend, poured into post offices, telling employees to quit or be beaten up. Police looked on. The riot fever reached its peak following the burial of Singer Carmen Ramos. Some 1,500 teen-agers started back to town after the ceremony, shouting "Algeria is French!"-"Death to the Assassins!" Joined by other Europeans-gangs of poor Italians and Spaniards from the working-class district of Bab el Oued and members of the locally recruited Territorial army-they surged...