Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the opening horseplay in the Fat Knight's lodge to the final tableau in praise of folly, the operatic version of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor was precisely what the Met needed to dignify an otherwise dolorous season. Zeffirelli's sets were like Dutch paintings come to life: an ancient inn cured in ale and laughter, a courtyard full of gossip and sunshine, a forest too deep for the eye to penetrate. His cast moved briskly and well, as if every gesture had been choreographed, and his stage direction was so good that the singers...
...hell?" says Zeffirelli's sulky prince (TIME, Dec. 27). And Falstaff turned out to be the perfect candidate for the young director's fine Italian hand. Falstaff's metamorphosis from boozy squire to oily seducer to triumphant rube is a fine argument in favor of the Fat Knight's philosophy: if the world can't see me as I am, then to hell with the world...
...deter a genteel, bejeweled audience from giving Mahagonny a 30-minute ovation, despite the opera's fiercely stated argument that all wealth is wicked. "Rich Italians now consider it very smart and refined to like Brecht and Weill," one critic humphed, and another suggested that all the fat cats clapped only to confuse spies from the tax collector's office. But the curtain calls had nothing to do with socialist realism. Instead, they were a tribute to Gloria Davy and Gloria Lane, two American singers who made Mahagonny a triumph in any tongue. "A fine pair of Glorias...
...Amis Two Fat Englishmen...
Anything for Anyone. Thanks to the cold war, corporate rivalries and Big Crime-not to mention old-fashioned marital jealousy-curiosity has built a fat-cat industry. The Federal Government alone is believed to buy about $20 million worth of bugging gear a year. Moreover, this total does not include all purchases by the bug-infested CIA, which likes to shop through dummy agencies. No manufacturer admits selling to hoods or pleasure snoopers, but most of them believe that their competitors do. Says Fred East, Los Angeles County district attorney's investigator: "Anyone can buy any kind of bugging...