Word: masseurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage corresponding to that of the music," Festival Director Menotti charted swirls of fluid movement and replaced the traditional austerity of Wagnerian scenery with velvet, flowers and drawing-room furniture. Menotti was also convinced that "when an Isolde looks like a virago and Tristan looks like a Swedish masseur, the love scenes risk becoming grotesque, even comical." So he filled the leading roles with two American singers who were stunningly typecast. Isolde, Soprano Klara Barlow, 38, exhibited the leggy (5 ft. 11 in.), platinum-blonde beauty of a former chorus girl -which she is. As Tristan, Tenor Claude Heater...
...applaud." His stamina comes from golf, a lot of walking and a lot of working. He'll launch into an old soft-shoe step while on the phone, sleeps irregularly but can cork off for a few seconds any old time. Wherever he goes, he takes his masseur, Fred Miron, who gives Hope a 45-minute rub every day. He loves practical jokes and mechanical toys; one favorite is a battery-driven Frankenstein monster that moves its arms and head in grisly fashion for about 30 seconds, then drops its pants and blushes...
Another way to keep in shape is to take a two-week Slimcruise from London, which promises that travelers will return 10 Ibs. lighter after daily sessions with dietitian and masseur. In a way, the trip is also a sadists' special; friends and spouses of the slimmers can go along for the ride, do not have to join in the calorie counting-and pay $42 less than the suffering slimmers...
...Besides the oath book ceremony, there are luncheons given by the leadership, and the little gestures that any politician appreciates. Daniel Inouye found his reception "extremely good, embarrassingly good. The senior members go out of their way to be nice to you; they even took me around to the masseur...
Such is the simple plot of this new novel by V. S. Naipaul, 29, a Hindu who made a name for himself in his first novel, The Mystic Masseur, which recorded with sweet and sour irony the ways of the colony (291,000) of expatriate Indians who live in Trinidad. What counts is not the plot but the flavor of their slap-happy lingo and picaresque customs, and it all ought to be as much fun as a barrel of tonka beans in Tobago sauce. But Naipaul's House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; 'economy...