Word: raring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nation's drama, court philosopher and iconoclast, a man with big-fisted ideas of leadership oddly matched with a Swiss-watch mind. He is out of phase, decompressing (sort of) as the political pace quickens. He was fired by one President, sensed the time to depart another. A rare repository of current history, Schlesinger is taking long looks at the world on these autumn days...
...rarefied range above the staff?the four or five notes from G to high C or D. For a male singer to reach such heights while retaining all the power and virility of his lower range?and, preferably, subordinating the sheer physical feat to an artistic purpose?is a rare and exhilarating achievement. This is the heroic madness of the tenor. He girds himself like a gladiator for an awesome exertion. Then, striving upward, he reaches for triumph, knowing that at the same time he is cruelly exposing himself to the most humiliating failure. No performance recovers from a broken...
Such moments of depression are rare, but they are an occupational hazard. Feasting or dieting, fussed over or not, a barnstorming opera singer spends long hours of isolation in hotels, studying, resting (Pavarotti sleeps ten to twelve hours before a performance) or simply killing time. Pavarotti's wife Adua joins him on tour for a few weeks each year, and friends consider her spirited, sensible ministrations a tremendous boost for him. Says one of them: "At least she doesn't stand in the wings with holy water like the wives of some Italian tenors." But Pavarotti manages only a handful...
...Excellent!" beamed Douglas Fraser, the United Auto Workers chief. "A credit to to both parties," said a General Motors negotiator. Both were praising a rare peaceful settlement, arrived at in a final flurry of horse trading at GM's imposing stone headquarters in Detroit just 4½ hours before a strike deadline. For the first time in 15 years, the autoworkers had reached a tentative contract agreement without going on a national strike. The three-year pact was concluded with GM but sets the pattern for the industry and covers 780,000 workers...
...house because Annie Glenn would not let him in during her husband's countdown; Alan Shepard losing a struggle with his full bladder moments before liftoff; the overeager press terrifying Ham the chimp after his proficient flight; the astronauts surrounded by thousands of cheering Texans waving hunks of rare meat during an honorary barbecue in the Houston Coliseum...