Word: pels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lago was a virile, magnetic figure, believable as a military officer, charming when he needed to be, capable of holding his twisted, demonic drives in check with a keen intelligence. No moment in the opera was more splendidly sung or powerfully acted than the second act S i, pel ciel, with Otello looming over him with upraised hand, like a malign marionette master. In this scene Verdi transcended Shakespeare, said Shaw. Watching Domingo and Milnes, one could only agree...
...pel ciel is one of the biggest climaxes in a score that sometimes seems to be nothing but climaxes. But Verdi and Librettist Arrigo Boito knew that after the massive choral scene in Act III, enough was enough. Hence the rightness of the subdued, wistfully melancholy fourth act, a sort of spacious postlude. This act is Desdemona's great moment. Soprano Gilda Cruz-Romo made the most of it, although in the earlier acts her singing had somewhat lacked color and shading. Poignant and dignified, she spun out the Willow Song and Desdemona's final prayer in long...
...bird? A plane? No, it's a "whale coming out of the water," says Henry Moore, 80, of his latest free-form sculpture. Architect I.M. Pel, 61, thinks it looks more like "the Loch Ness monster." This artistic debate took place at the unveiling of the 27,000-lb. bronze in front of Dallas' new city hall, designed by Pei. "Until this arrived," Pei said, "I felt something was missing." A few spectators, however, thought something was still amiss. "Is this a junkyard?" asked one. Moore was undaunted. "People shouldn't immediately expect to cotton onto something...
SEPARATED. Pelé, 37, Brazilian soccer hero, from his wife Rose, 33, after twelve years of marriage, three children. Various commitments, such as running soccer camps and making TV commercials, are keeping the retired Cosmos star on the road. Said Pelé "I have been traveling for 22 years. Rose says it has to stop, but I cannot...
...marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian true believers never really caught the rhythm, and Pelé himself, at 37 too old to play championship soccer, and too recently the best player in the world to resign himself to his job as a TV commentator, said miserably during the qualifying round that "Brazil, my beloved Brazil, has only given us reason to cry." He cried too soon, and back...