Word: choirboy
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...poetic gifts, and they urged him not only to be but to play the poet. Since the poetic image was proletarian at the time (1934), Dylan promptly plunged into the slums of Soho and there tried terribly hard to be a roly-proley Marxist. Though he looked like a choirboy, he argued like a Bolshevik, dressed like a bum, drank like a culvert, smoked like an ad for cancer, bragged that he was addicted to onanism and had committed an indecency with a member of Parliament. He slept with any woman who was willing, subsisted largely on a diet...
...artist, Russell puts on a choirboy's cape and sings a madrigal about death with her eyes crossed. Moments later she is a torch singer, plainting about That Man she loves...
...other North German cantors of his day. Bach was born in Eisenach, a town in the Thuringian forest of Germany, dominated by the medieval castle of the Wartburg, where Luther translated the Bible into German. Orphaned in 1695 when he was only nine, he spent his youth as a choirboy, violinist and organist. By the time he arrived in Weimar in his mid-20s, he was already an outstanding organist, and during his years there he developed into the finest organist of his time. In Weimar he wrote some of his most glorious music: the "Great" Preludes and Fugues...
Died. Dick Powell, 58, one of the first big-time Hollywood stars to leave the silver screen for the gold mines of TV, a onetime choirboy from Mountain View, Ark., who broke into the early talkies as a baby-faced crooner, later retyped himself as a good bad guy in a dozen movies, none as successful as his co-ownership (with David Niven and Charles Boyer) of Four Star Television, which had as many as 13 shows (among them: The Rifleman, Richard Diamond) going at one time; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...Heart in one elastic sigh, quavered in a high, thin falsetto through My One and Only Love. His phrasing was fresh, his diction irreproachable, his dramatic sense unfailing. But it was the intimate, haunting quality of his voice that brought the audience alive. It has a kind of choirboy innocence hooked with a Cole Porter leer...