Word: lyrically
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...conceit at best, and time has made the resulting camouflage and persiflage dimly dispiriting. In 1936, Russia was remotely terrible but not dangerous, still exotic enough for period romance and period humor, attitudes no 1963 playgoer can sustain. Tovarich needed a boldly inventive face lifting, but its book and lyrics sadly sag. Its tune-shy music may please any metronomes in the audience. Sample wit: "Let's go down to the kitchen and get a potato and make our own vodka." Sample lyric...
...mezzo-soprano wife, Sandra Warfield. moved off to Bonn for a year, then to Milan for two, in search of the experience the Met had denied him. Europeans were quick to recognize the value of McCracken's voice, but though he sounded just right for lyric romantic roles, his size cost him the job: he is 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighs 270 Ibs.. and has a 52-in. chest-eight inches bigger than Sonny Liston's and twelve bigger, than Jayne Mansfield...
...satire of the highly acclaimed Second City players. Negro Playwright (Raisin in the Sun) Lorraine Hansberry has great promise, and Negro Poetess Gwendolyn Brooks has won a Pulitzer Prize. The Chicago Symphony, once in a sorry state, now ranks among the nation's best. The nine-year-old Lyric Opera and scores of smaller music groups have faithful followings, while attendance at indoor art exhibitions has increased by more than 30% in the past few years; the Art Institute alone is visited by one million people annually...
...Cassius did, after all, win. His career is not over; he's still a promising contender. Those few experts who shoveled through Clay's Roman pomp and lyric poetry saw a young (21), inexperienced, unpolished, and unproved quantity...
...Ustinov) at 80 is confronted with himself at 60, 40, 20, and even as a baby. The four grown Sams share the stage together, and with all the amusing ironies of hindsight and foreknowledge relive key episodes in their communal life. Sam at 20 (John Horton) is an ardent lyric poet and marathon runner, at 40 (Donald Davis) a disgruntled fictional crafts man of obscure worst-sellers, at 60 (Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson of his life as the four Sams discuss marriage, mistresses, goals...