Word: laing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PONCHIELLI: LA GIOCONDA (London; 3 LPs). German tradition holds that opera is not worth listening to unless conductor, orchestra, text, music and singers all work together to produce one whole art. Italians, on the other hand, are partial to individualistic vocalism that is sensually beautiful as well as expressive. This record leans toward the Italian style. Renata Tebaldi, Robert Merrill, Marilyn Home and Carlo Bergonzi are all equipped with voluptuous voices singing this perennial "singers' opera," complete with massive arias and roof-hitting dramatics. Tebaldi, the star of them all, has compensated for the loss of the famous velvet...
...Vietnamese police chief's execution of a Viet Cong. "Not even a perfunctory acknowledgment was made of the fact that such executions, en masse, are the Viet Cong way of war." Smith reports that his own son Jack, left for dead by the Communists in the battle of la Drang, witnessed the execution by the enemy of a dozen U.S. soldiers who were in uniform...
...Marine battalion commander at Camp Pendleton, Calif., has posted wall-size copies in his unit's barracks "as an inspiration to our troops," and residents of Shreveport, La., are thinking of having bumper stickers made up along similar lines. As for Donnelly, it is planning to start pasting them on its own billboards this week, and the agency's John Donnelly Jr. knows exactly where he wants the first one to go: Harvard Square...
FINALLY, there is always something for the transvestite. Rare is the skin flick that does not have at least one man in full feminine harness, including bra, belt and garters. Occasionally two or more men go full drag a la jack Lemmon '47 and Tony Curtis is Some Like...
...that he would succeed handsomely. His enigmatic painting evoked objects seen in the round, and his bottles, painted in the forms of women, are among the most cherished talismans of the 1930s. The eight sculptures employ ideas Magritte previously used in his paintings, gaining solidity without loss of magic. La Folie des Grandeurs derives from a 1947 fantasy showing three women's torsos, each set implausibly one inside the other. Souvenir de Voyage shows a coffin reclining gracefully on an Empire couch, in a grisly parody of Madame Recamier...