Word: lorenzo
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...through the film, as the moviegoer watches, there travels a troubling little ecstasy of recognition. The costumes, and even many of the scenic compositions, are copies from old masterpieces by Lippo Lippi, Pisanello, Carpaccio, Lorenzo. As the orchestra tunes up for the Capulets' ball, five little boys step up to sing, and suddenly are grouped, in lovely archaic rhythm, as a choir of cherubs in Raphael's style. Juliet, in the scene where she first sees Romeo, is dressed like Botticelli's Flora, and the lines of her head and neck might be a tracing from Veneziano...
...Artistic Director Kurt Herbert Adler (successor to the San Francisco Opera's founder, the late Gaetano Merola) had reason to be satisfied with the way his first season was going. With his divas backed by a solid company (including Metropolitan Opera Singers Richard Tucker, Leonard Warren and Lorenzo Alvary), he could be sure of top musical quality for the next six weeks. Adler has another novelty in store for next month: the first U.S. performance in operatic form of Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake, with Cinemactress Dorothy McGuire speaking the name part...
...special train, stopping at way stations where silent thousands gathered, took the body back to Rome. And there, this week, after high petitions by his beloved Church for heavenly grace, rich in earthly honors, Alcide de Gasperi would be laid to rest in Rome's magnificent Basilica San Lorenzo...
...School, Willie picked up the nickname "Buckduck," and specialized in a course in cleaning and pressing. There was no baseball team, but Willie at 14 was already good enough to play with steel-mill clubs and independent semipros. When Willie was 16, Kitty Cat called up his old friend, Lorenzo ("Piper") Davis, manager of the Black Barons, and got the boy a tryout. Three games later, young Buckduck Mays was the Barons' regular centerfielder...
...days and two nights the talks went on, and at last the scouts understood. Explained Head Koshare Ronnie Lorenzo: "Always before we have taken something from the past to preserve for posterity. Now we have taken something alive. We must give it back...