Word: pavarotti
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...Pavarotti's great career therefore ended with a virtual performance, something sad but inevitable.' LEONE MAGIERA, Luciano Pavarotti's longtime pianist and conductor, revealing that the opera singer lip-synched his final public performance at the opening of the 2006 Winter Olympics Numbers
...particularly creepy image when you envision folded socks and underwear stuffed in there with the dead people). The wind whispered gently in the background—in Italian of course—and as I read the names chiseled into the tomb’s façades, Pavarotti sung a silent opera in my head. I roamed the aisles wondering what the hell we were doing here, until I turned a corner and there they were. Stack after stack of Gilbertis: Michele, Giacomo, Francesco, Immacolota…managia! (“damn”), In this tiny graveyard...
...Legacies of Those We Lost Your farewell section [Dec. 31, 2007 - Jan. 7, 2008] was a touching way to end the year. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut left us with wonderful literature, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills left us with the magic of music, and Anna Nicole Smith left us with ... what exactly? She might have been a so-called notable personality, but only because the media swarmed around her, waiting for her to do more and more ridiculous things. She became a bigger-than-life caricature of herself, a real-life burlesque act because of the media. She should...
...Legacies of Those We Lost Your farewell section was a touching way to end the year [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut left us with wonderful literature, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills left us with the magic of music, and Anna Nicole Smith left us with ... what exactly? She might have been a celebrity, but only because the media swarmed around her, waiting for her to do more and more ridiculous things. She should be pitied, not honored. Ray Schwartz, New York City...
...call him, 250-pound fullback Noah Van Niel ’08 makes his presence known on the football field. But there’s one more nickname that has nothing to do with Van Niel’s impressive size. “Where’s Pavarotti?” Football Head Coach Tim L. Murphy asks as teammates drag Van Niel into the center of the huddle. A video on The New York Times’ Web site shows Van Niel serenading the locker room with an impromptu rendition of “God Bless America...