Word: pale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONTEVERDI: IL BALLO DELLE INGRATE (Nonesuch). This musical play of 1608 taught the ladies of the Duke of Mantua's court a moral: Make love or you will go to Hades. As horrible examples, Pluto brings up from his dark kingdom an eternally damned bevy of pale beauties who, when on earth, "ungrateful, held every lover at a distance." Edwin Loehrer and the chorus and orchestra of the Società Cameristica di Lugano give the embryonic opera a convincing performance...
...almost invariably at the President's side. Even in his seventh floor State Department office overlooking the Lincoln Memorial, the Secretary of State was only an arm's length away from Johnson. A white phone near Rusk's uncluttered desk reaches Johnson directly. Alongside it, a pale green phone with a black receiver hooks him up to the new KY3 super-security network that links the President, the Pentagon and major military commands. Behind his desk hangs a Norman Rockwell watercolor of Johnson inscribed by L.B.J.: "To Dean Rusk, my wise counselor...
...Thailand's Chiangmai province rushed the royal elephant expert. It's true! he reported back to Bangkok. After studying the pale toenails, the pink about the eyes and the white about the ears, it could be certified that for the second time in the 19-year reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 38, a white elephant was born in Thailand, thus assuring the kingdom of doubly good fortune. And so, in the traditional three-hour ceremonies at Chiangmai, King Bhumibol welcomed the albino baby. Buddhist and Brahman priests chanted blessings; the King poured lustral water, presented golden robes...
Fascinated in a somewhat different fashion, Hearst's Jim Bishop drew a less flattering portrait: "The lady is 60 inches of wrought iron. It is blonde and pale and unyielding. It isn't something that God wrought. Candace did it. From the day long ago, when the little Georgia belle found out females have an earthy attraction for males, Candace has coated that little body with so many veneers of honey and passion that if the real Candace stood up, Mrs. Mossier would probably disown...
Finally, as the first members came out, someone shouted, "Is it a boy or a girl?" "A girl," came back the answer, and up went the cheers. Then a few minutes later, Indira appeared. The patrician profile, the pale smile, the rosebud?all reminded the crowd of their beloved Panditji. "Indira Gandhi zindabadr chanted the throng. "Long live Indira Gandhi...