Word: piers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote the famed castrato soprano Pier Francesco Tosi in his book Observations on the Florid Song, which was the basic handbook for opera singers during the 18th century. In those days singers freely ornamented composers' scores with their own improvised embellishments in a style known as bel canto (literally, "beautiful singing") To today's purists, who worshipfully preach note-for-note fidelity to the composer the style is strictly bellow canto. Nevertheless, performances in opera houses and on recordings are now being laced with so many variations on old arias that Tosi would sing...
...concerned would be good. So we took her into our act. Let's face it: it didn't hurt the act either. Of course, we weren't always in the same show." One summer at the resort of Blackpool, for instance, "we were on the pier, and she was in the big theater in town, really a step above...
Cookery Books. The poet, the pedants and the author of record have turned out a disappointing book. They do provide some useful information, such as the distinction between dock and pier (a boat floats in a dock, but is tied to a pier). Yet such pointers are overwhelmed by humorless pedagogy, prolixity, questionable advice, and an embarrassing number of sins against good usage and grammar...
...budget movie, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, was hailed as the year's best religious film; so Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini has decided to try the formula again. And again. First he plans to shoot a modern-day version of St. Paul's travels, then a contemporary parable of Christ visiting a middle-class family. The fact that Pasolini is a Marxist seems to trouble a lot of people-but not Paolo. "What no one understands is that an Italian Marxist is very special. He doesn't change into another person when he votes Communist...
...GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. Christ is part prophet, part social reformer in a memorable Bible epic, taken word for word from Scripture by Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist...