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...posture of the jaw-is not so bad. The cushions seem quaint instead of hard. After a little while, however, the sense of confinement sets in. Panic at the thought that there is no escape, that you simply must sit there just that way for 40 minutes, is well-nigh unbearable...
...their prime. Both have very big voices. And both sing as if they were competing for top billing-which of course they are. Whether Verdi envisaged his heroic opera the way Nilsson and Corelli do it is another question. In any case, the rest of the cast is well-nigh unnoticeable behind all that star sound, and Zubin Mehta's conducting is efficient but not especially revealing...
...until a decade later, while sketching the ruins of Rome on a Fulbright in 1958-59, did he rediscover the joys of literally recording reality. Since 1962, his paintings of models, male and female, standing, sitting or lying in unglamorous poses round about his studio, have won well-nigh unanimous critical acclaim...
...fact, from the promoter's point of view, the scheme is well-nigh perfect. So obvious are its charms that when a New Orleans bartender received a probing letter, he neither responded nor complained. He immediately went into the business himself. So did a Boston law student. The original U.S. outfit was apparently Legal Research Inc. in Newport Beach, Calif.; now it has at least 17 competitors, operating everywhere from London to Philadelphia. As for the addressees, even those who fully understand what the letter says may be tempted; $6 against an inheritance of thousands sounds like a good...
When Harvard football, soccer, and cross-country teams all take the trek--nigh impossible except by Mohawk charter--to Cornell, fans are generally left twiddling their thumbs in Cambridge. But not this weekend. WRKO-AM and FM is leaping noisly into the breach with a three-day program of New England's All Time Top 300 that is designed to turn thumb-twiddlers to foot-stompers...