Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breathes, and sometimes it hyperventilates. The songs are more spacious, giving Elvis more chances to pose, to mince a bit, and some of his vocals have a slurred, lolling quality, made creepy by strangely dissonant, disconnected back-up vocals. See him there, leaning against the piano, "trying to look Italian to the musical Valium," all hope gone. He's always been cynical, but his anger signaled hope; Trust is faith in nothing. This is some of his most "listenable" music, meaning that you can play it at parties without apologizing, you can listen to it in snatches. The choruses...
...interview started as a trial of strength, as interviews by the volatile Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci inevitably must. Lech Walesa, the Polish union leader, said: "I am a man with a goal to reach so I don't give a damn ... Not for the books, not for the interviews, not for the Nobel Prize and even less for you." Fallaci answers: "Listen, Walesa ... if you don't mind, I am the one who asks. Now let's start." Soon Walesa confesses that "I'm tired, bloody tired, and not only in my body...
...talent into full flower. Beethoven, for example, had to get two fairly conventional symphonies under his belt before he revolutionized the form in the Eroica. Wagner, the creator of the German music-drama, required four false starts before he produced The Flying Dutchman. Giuseppe Verdi, the greatest of Italian opera composers, was no exception. Before Rigoletto, his first masterpiece, there came 16 other works, most of which have languished in obscurity for years...
...quit. She had married Giovanni Meneghini, a Veronese businessman 28 years her senior, who adored her but soon bored her. Walter Legge, then head of EMI records, liked to tell a story about a late night conversation with them: "Wooler undervests visible beneath their nightwear, [they were] reading Italian illustrateds." Callas decided to become Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday was a favorite film) and lost 62 Ibs. in two years. In 1956 Callas met Elsa Maxwell, who swept her into European café society and the next year introduced her to Aristotle Onassis...
...longs, though, to hear more of Callas speaking on her art, for she said a great deal, especially in the 1971-72 master classes at Juilliard. Perhaps the cliché is correct: art is inscrutable. That may be the wisdom in a musing early in her career by Italian Conductor Nicola Rescigno: "It is a deep mystery why a girl born into a musically unsophisticated family, and raised in an atmosphere devoid of operatic tradition, should have been blessed with the ability to sing the perfect recitative...