Word: georgio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Porto Hercule with a certain notorious Greek actress, known to the American public for her role in a daring movie. Honey-Lou had no objection to such occasional flings. Leonidas had more than enabled her to savour exotic, decadent, romantic people and villas. (And beds.) Her nephew was Georgio...
...Georgio was a neo-surrealist. He and Andy had barhopped in Paris and New York with Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and other experimental creative minds still living. "Tanta" Honey-Lou bought the wild paintings of Georgio and miscellaneous cohorts--she was their patron goddess. Her top-floor studio which led onto the terrace and pool, was hung with eleven portraits done by thankful young admiring artists she had helped. Not flattering ones only. In one she was a pale-green mermaid, with an ochre heart, but still with her own silky orange hair. At 45, her bikinied figure was a source...
Luther O'Flaraty and Ambassador Stephanos arrived. Georgio, after four bloody marys, felt gay. Host, as Honey-Lou hadn't returned from the airport--her friend the President of Texas University had had to be seen off--Georgio gave O'Flaraty tips on where to send volunteers in Mexico. He knew the land, he said, its villages and ruins: peyote, mescaline; its girls...
...brilliance and power is Nilsson's match, and as Calaf can credibly convert the cruel princess into a woman in love. The earlier recording is superior, however, having Erich Leinsdorf as conductor and a generally better cast, including Renata Tebaldi as the second female lead and Georgio Tozzi as the Tartar king...