Word: facing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tradition, the life story of the Latin American dictator goes something like this: win power, steal, flee (aided by the hallowed tradition of "political asylum"), spend and enjoy. The story almost never includes: return home, face the music. Last week, in a startling change in the familiar pattern, the democratic government of Colombia stood up to a brazen former strongman and made him answer for his actions...
First Cries. But there is another side to the Tebaldi personality-a kind of native stubbornness that no amount of argument can shake. And occasionally, Tebaldi allows her well-reined temper to show. One opera manager who has worked with them both finds that he would rather face Callas' furies than Tebaldi's smile with its "dimples of iron...
...left again when she was 18) left Renata desperately dependent on her mother. One of the bitterest shocks of her childhood, she remembers, was going to see Giuseppina after a mastoid operation. A surgeon had sliced through a facial nerve, paralyzing one side of her mother's face. "She went in a bella donna" says Renata. "She came out disfigured. I cursed the surgeon-I wanted to kill...
...even her staunchest supporters would claim that Tebaldi is a great or even a highly gifted actress. A tall (5 ft. 10 in.), ample woman with a handsome, highbrowed face, she generally moves through her roles with a kind of stolid and unvarying grace that sometimes reduces opera's garish-hued passions to a decorator's cool blues and whites...
...much of the plastic quality is lost [in the copy] by a manipulation of the brush that imitates Rembrandt's strokes but loses control of their modeling function," wrote Rosenberg. "The transitional tones, so essential for bringing out the modeling in its full range, are gone, and the face has become much flatter in detail and harsher in its value contrasts...