Word: earlied
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...chariots fly through the air belching smoke, monsters writhe, and looming castles collapse in a heap of rubble. Bright and vivid, Rinaldo is a bauble for the eye; as sung by an imposing cast that includes Bass Samuel Ramey and Soprano Benita Valente, it is a treat for the ear. But whether it serves Handel or the thorny cause of baroque opera faithfully is moot...
...second act, the play-within-a-play is like a metronome. Says Paxton Whitehead, who plays the dithery tax dodger of Nothing On: "Everything in the front of the set is timed to the voices in the back. We always have to have the third ear...
...night's heroics were performed by a tiny sergeant of the Army's Strolling Strings. Without flinching, she fiddled a mere two feet from the ear of Violin Virtuoso Isaac Stern, who would play Beethoven later...
...episode was reminiscent of the kidnaping of the grandson of Oil Tycoon John Paul Getty in Rome in 1973, when young Getty's ear was cut off and mailed to Il Messaggero. His family eventually paid a reported $2.8 million to his abductors. Last week's grisly find renewed debate in Italy about the wisdom of blocking ransom payments. The Bulgari and Calissoni families issued a statement to the effect that negotiations with the kidnapers would continue, suggesting that the authorities may have made it possible for the family to circumvent the magistrate's action...
...back lot. Battle, a natural-born Broadway stunner, captivates the audience with an electrifying spirit that surges from his head to all ten toes. But the other family members are often deadly serious; they express themselves in Composer Henry Krieger's capacious Tin Pan arias, which haunt the ear without paying much more than lip service to the Afro rhythms that energized his Dreamgirls score. In the final gasp of the show's schizophrenia, young Willie comes to a perverse decision about the show he has dreamed of appearing in. It satisfies his parents but not a Broadway...