Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snuffling through the midwinter vapors, Conductor Sir John Barbirolli, who plans to commute transatlantically between the Houston Symphony and the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, prescribed his podium-tested cold cure: "Put on two pullovers. Stand on a chair. Turn the wireless onto a symphony concert and conduct like mad with a poker or pencil for an hour or so. The cold, I guarantee, will have vanished by the last movement." A comparative youngster in a profession noted for longevity, Sir John, 61, who is inclined to share his wisdom with everybody, freely explained the secret of his nostrum...
...Soprano Graziella Sciutti, 29, was out before the curtain receiving one of the biggest ovations of her career. The part she had played to perfection: the title role in a rarely performed opera by Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816), Nina, ossia la Pazza per Amore (Nina, or the Girl Driven Mad by Love...
...does not have a particularly beautiful finish. But, as she demonstrated again last week in Nina, she outdistances most other singers in the way she throws herself into a role. Sciutti so identified herself with Paisiello's heroine that "I started to think I was going completely mad." With every movement of her curvy body and every inflection of her fresh voice, she threw into startling relief the flickering mind of a girl gone mad with grief. "An almost perfect execution!" glowed Milan's Corriere d'Informazione. Added a visiting London Times critic: "When Paisiello wrote this...
...single act would doubtless be staged by Frankie himself: his Inaugural wardrobe had been designed by Hollywood Couturier Don Loper, who regularly makes up ladies' ensembles. Soon after Loper leaked the news that Frankie had ordered "two of everything" just "in case he spills anything," Frankie got so mad at the chic designer that he vowed he would not wear a stitch of Loper clothing...
...screams, when she sees the hero. "M aaamaaaaa!" Nervously they make friends. He offers her a bite of salt pork. "Just a nibble," she says shyly. She wolfs the whole pound -raw. After half an hour boy and girl are so innocently and unleninistically in love that only a mad dog of a capitalist could fail to be in love with them...