Word: lightheartedness
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Verrett's gypsy go-go girl was proud, alluring, pantherlike, intelligent and vocally velvet. Right at the start, in the opening Habanera, she rejected the tradition that makes Carmen a menacing femme fatale. "The music of the Habanera is not heavy," she says. "It is elegant, light, playful, seductive...
THE VIOLENT PEACE, by Carl and Shelley Mydans. Two veteran combat correspondents combine memorable war pictures and eyewitness accounts of 44 TIME-LIFE correspondents to examine the changing face of war in the nuclear age. 1897 SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOGUE, introductions by S. J. Perelman and Richard Rovere. A dazzling trove...
In an engaging conclusion, the author conjures up an evening at the theater to evoke what he likes best about France: the mocking, lighthearted spirit of Beaumarchais' Le Manage de Figaro. It was just such a Figaro-like nation, he says, young and insolent, that was able to teach...
THE DOCK OF THE BAY (Volt). The title song, Otis Redding's first million-selling single, was recorded a few weeks before his death in a plane crash last December. One of his catchiest and most reflective songs, it has none of the torrential outbursts and piston rhythms with...
ROMP!! (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A lighthearted leap through the where-it's-at world of the young, guided by Michele Lee and Ryan O'Neal, with not-so-young Guests Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Allen, Jimmy Durante, Liberace and Casey Stengel.