Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seats close to 3000. The basketball games are all sold out. But the hockey program is on its way up, and the squad is young (only three seniors). So maybe by the time Ron Wilson is a senior, he'll be playing before an SRO crowd in a "hockey-mad" town...
...think I've ever been so damned mad in my life! After spending the day trying to cope with the truckers' strike, waiting in vain at the gas station, I come home and read your article about an $86 billion expenditure for defense. When will we understand that the willingness to defend our country is in direct proportion to the quality of life at home? We must attend-and fast-to rectifying our problems here, and to hell with defense...
...York State Theater on its feet for a long ovation. In post-World War II productions of Puritani, only Maria Callas has achieved anything to equal Sills' limpid coloration, melting lyricism and blissfully giddy personification of a heroine whose luxury it is to have both a mad scene and a happy ending...
Things get a bit sticky when Walton agrees to let his daughter Elvira marry a royalist, Lord Arturo Talbot. They get even more awkward when, on the wedding day, Arturo spirits Enrichetta away from the Puritan fortress to safety. Elvira does not understand that, and goes sweetly and pathetically mad, while Arturo is sentenced in absentia to death...
...Puritani was the last opera Bellini wrote before he died in 1835 at age 33. Its graceful and ornate vocal writing actually suits Sills' light voice better than Donizetti's heavyweight scores. This is music to float jewels on. Sills' succession of bravura displays in the mad scene ("Qui la voce sua soave ") is like a string of emeralds, each deeper and more lustrous in color. She enters from a high rear balcony, floats dreamily down a long ramp, chats nuttily with her father ("Who are you?"), begs for her lover's return, then collapses...