Word: ravenously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missed them before and are willing to go a long way to see them, The Raven and A Lover's Return opened yesterday at the Ascot at 183 Street and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, Paris 1900 is at the Embassy (42nd and Park...
Word of a sensational new Spanish singer first began to drift across the Atlantic early last year; a 25-year-old raven-haired, camelia-skinned lyric soprano named Victoria de los Angeles, singing in opera and recital, had taken London and Paris by storm. Sharp-eared U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok investigated and joined the cheering section. Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sailed for Europe last spring rather certain that his roster of leading sopranos was complete, changed his mind when he heard her. By last week, Soprano de los Angeles' first U.S. concert performance was just about...
...wrote songs in praise of homosexuality and accompanied them on the lute with what Vasari grudgingly described as "no little facility." He kept a string of race horses, and pets by the dozen: jays, apes, badgers, squirrels, marmosets, turtle doves, and a raven which he taught to answer the door. In an inventory of goods filed with the Siena tax collector in 1512, Il Sodoma also listed "a donkey that talks theology to the priests...
...mile ride from Tokyo. In the airfield's noisy, sprawling, glass-walled building, the children found a haven under the protection of Operation Recess; volunteer nurses popped the smallest in cribs, kept the bigger ones busy with comic books. A few of the women belonged to Operation Raven, the Air Force's sardonic tag for the widows of men killed in Korea...
...made a surprisingly strong showing. Top man of this group is General Nicholas Plastiras, 67, a hero of the Greco-Turkish war of 1922, in which he was known to the Greeks as "The Black Horseman" and to the Turks as "Black Pepper" (what's left of his raven hair is now white). Plastiras led an antiRoyalist coup in 1922; he intended to execute Prince Andrew, father of Britain's Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, but a British destroyer dashed up and rescued Andrew from Plastiras. Later, Plastiras was deposed and exiled...