Word: obbligatoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone into seclusion for a nose bob, volatile Soprano Maria Callas returned to Milan's La Scala five days after undergoing punishing treatment for sinusitis and won 25 rapturous curtain calls in Cherubini's Medea. Warbled Callas. tossing off the hasty comeback as mere noblesse obbligato: "Everyone else can be ill and get sympathy, but I cannot afford to be sick because the press watches my every movement for a chance to get a smack...
Hash & Cash. These sounds are the obbligato to that great rite of Christmastide, the buying and giving of gifts. The sounds began before the Thanksgiving turkey had flaked into hash, and last week they were swelling in the annual crescendo. Across the U.S., people were throwing money around as if it were going out of style. The nation's department stores, glittering with tinseled trees and holly wreaths, were braced for what promised to be the biggest Christmas sales in history. In Detroit, Hudson's added 5,500 extra employees to handle the crush and the cash...
Imitation Surf. With close harmony and wordless rhythm, Norman Kaye and Frankie Ross cushion Mary Kaye's wailing obbligato, producing a pleasant blend of sound that may sometimes suggest the Andrews sisters doing a Pepsodent commercial; but it is just the sort of thinkproof entertainment that gamblers crave. The trio specializes in old standards (Heartaches, And the Angels Sing), and as an extra fail-safe against boredom, Frankie Ross often makes joking commentaries on the lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into...
...table hopping was livelier, and the members seemed happier (the club, founded in 1955 with the motto "Out but Happy," has changed its slogan to "In and Very Happy"). And through it all ran the insistent obbligato of job seekers on the make ("I hear there's an opening in Frank's office . . . What else ya got . . . ? When can we start . . . ? How about that...
...filled with flower petals and ticker tape (a trick the Brazilians learned from watching U.S. newsreels), and the Ficus trees along Rio Branco Avenue looked like maypoles under their drapery of serpentine and confetti. Music-from God Bless America to Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus, with a strong obbligato of carnival songs and sambas-rang out at every corner. Rio throbbed with happy emotion. "It was even bigger than our welcome for the Brazilian troops at the end of the war," said an awed carioca, "except that then there was lots of crying." Said Ike: "The most impressive entrance...