Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long ranked as Europe's darkest museum, the Prado has begun the long-overdue installation of a scientific scheme of lighting (mixture of blue, yellow and rose neon to approximate sunlight). Predicted Prado Director Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor: "By next year I think we will be able to say, 'Now the whole museum is illuminated...
Lauro's resignation has long been the aim of the Democratic Christian national government in Rome. Last week Minister of the Interior Fernando Tambroni railed against the staggering Naples deficit ($50 million for this year) and the graft, corruption and chaos of Lauro's open-handed administration. Naples' local Communists enthusiastically backed Tambroni's charges-they cannot match the effectiveness of Lauro's electioneering techniques, which include the distribution of thousands of left-foot shoes to voters with the promise of the other shoe "when you vote right...
Kicked-Up Rating. Garner has happily forsaken his nomadic life for San Fernando Valley, where he lives with his wife Lois and her nine-year-old daughter by a previous marriage, Kimberly. In his three months on Maverick, to which ABC, Warner Bros, and the sponsor, Kaiser Industries, have committed $6,000,000 for 52 shows (13 of them repeats), he has earned a trifling $500 a week; but he insists that "salary doesn't mean a cotton-picking thing to me." Cowpoke Garner and his colleagues get the pleasure of playing from scripts in which a stage direction...
...cumbrously on horseback) glowed dimly through the iron grille of a crypt, like a sea creature in a grotto. Through the mellow moonlit streets moved the kind of cast only a great opera house could muster: Cesare Siepi, Eleanor Steber, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Fernando Corena, Theodor Uppman, all in top form...
...acting was sometimes reminiscent of the reflex actions of a sleek cat rather than of a man willing to defy Heaven to enjoy earth. Soprano Steber presented a rich, blazing, gusty-voiced Donna Anna and Soprano Delia Casa an elegantly anguished Donna Elvira. And as Leporello, Basso Fernando Corena not only lurched and grimaced about the stage in convincing pantomime of a man clutching hard to his sanity but turned in some of the finest singing of the evening. In his first appearance at the Metropolitan, Viennese Conductor Karl Boehm, while distinctly slow-paced, achieved a fine balance between...