Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cornell's Bartolo was strong but a little clumsy and headstrong. Angus Duncan as Antonio was marvellously and bitterly ironic. He also had one of the most brilliant lines of the translation: describing Cherubino's leap from a window, he testifies, "I'm sure that he wasn't on horseback, for no horse from the window came down." But of all the minor roles, Juliet Cunningham's Barbarina was best. Her fourth act cavatina ("I'ho perduta, me meschina") had just the right touch of girlish dolefulness...
Romney led off, with a thud. The audience gave him a barely polite ovation, and Romney did little to evoke more during his talk. After a few jokes that had listeners groaning ("L.BJ.'s spending more and more time on the ranch practicing horseback riding to see if he can improve his Gallup"), he launched into a ponderous discourse on fiscal theory and federal-state relations, ran five minutes over his allotted time. "It was not a good night," said one of his supporters...
Death by Culture. In Man on Horseback, one anonymous watercolorist was ignorant of the rules of perspective, but he was uninhibited in his use of color, filled all the available space with decorative plants and boughs. To capture the clipper ship's surge through the mountainous seas, another anonymous painter resorted to ritualistic formality, reminiscent of a Japanese print. Ironically, what spelled the death of such original flights of fancy was the spread of culture. When the amateur artist was forced to compete with cheap lithographs and daguerreotypes, he copied them in all their banality, and thereby lost...
COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Dinah Shore taped two shows on her recent trip to Russia. The first one features the Moscow State Circus, with Popov the clown, the Bubnov aerialists and the Kantemirov daredevil horseback riders...
...major wine-producing states: California and New York. California, with its sunny climate and rich soil, is far in the lead. It sells a full three-fourths of domestic wines (143 million gallons) and conducts a vast promotion campaign, currently featuring the barrel-chested baritone on horseback who peals (and pours) Gallo's praises...