Word: paler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basso Rossi-Lemeni's singing was as commanding as his stage presence, though his voice was sometimes rough and low in resonance. He was surrounded by a cast of top singers who, if their voices were finer, made comparatively paler characters...
...cool, grey morning last week, a drab Molotov truck pulled up with a growl in front of the triple-arched "Freedom Gate" at Panmunjom. Pale hands and paler faces appeared from behind the grey canvas that covered...
...Lytton Strachey . . . looked like a caricature of Christ; a limp cadaverous creature, moving feebly, with lank long brown hair and the beginnings of a beard much paler in color, and spasmodic treble murmurs of a voice utterly weary and contemptuous. Obscene was the character written all over...
...Thinner and paler than ever after a month's illness, Evita Perón came back last week to perhaps her greatest triumph. The occasion was the Peronistas' Loyalty Day, celebrating the day in 1945 when Juan Perón was sprung from prison and swept back into power on the shoulders of his "shirtless" supporters. This year the day was dedicated to Evita...
...recurrent nervous disorders. He uses a cobweb-festooned greenhouse on the grounds as his studio. On favorable days when "the light is calm," he arranges still lifes of wild flowers, cherries, beans, clusters of garlic or withered leaves on a potting table, paints them against imaginary landscapes in paler, more wistful colors than his old gay studies of Venice and France. "They are a little sad," says De Pisis gently, "because...