Word: pang
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...hunger is plain as the pang in your...
...seconds of the first act. As the curtain goes up on Sean Kenny's somber hewn-wood set, a dozen or so boys are released from their kennel-like pen. They slink up to their empty gruel bowls like wan, spiritless animals. For a long instant, a pang of pathos hangs upon the air. Then the game little troupers raise their obviously steak-fed voices and wham a sappy-happy song, Food, Glorious Food, right up into the dingy rafters...
...Ping, Pang, Pong. The old. unhappy exile spun out his cantata in 29 scenes, but at his death, most of the orchestration was still incomplete; the rough score entrusted to his sister Maria contained as many as six alternate versions of some scenes. The job of selecting the best versions and of stitching the whole thing together was taken over by Spanish Composer Ernesto Halffter, a onetime pupil. Halffter was confident that he could remain true to the master's "musical tastes and ascetic conceptions...
...handling of a myriad of descriptive effects. And the weightiness of the theme was relieved by occasional touches of humor, most strikingly with the singing of the three-headed Geryones (Tenors Pier Francesco Poli, Pieo de Palma, Sergio Pezzetti), which sounded a little like Tnrandot's Ping. Pang and Pong in flamenco...
...look-alike brands, which usually sell for less than half the price of the U.S. original, cover a wide spectrum. They include Yalf locks, N & N chocolates, Del Mundo catsup, Pang's (Pond's) cold cream, Sehnring (Schering) drugs, and no fewer than five imitations-Hotex, Potex, Katex, Mytex and Nestex-of another familiar U.S. product...