Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been playing ring-around-the-rosy for about three years," Hankins says...
...Angeles jury today convicted Heidi Fleiss on three of five pandering charges -- effectively saying she ran a high-priced call girl ring -- but deadlocked on two other charges and acquitted her of selling cocaine to an undercover cop. The 28-year-old Fleiss, who had been arrested after providing $1,500 prostitutes for policemen posing as businessmen, slammed her hands on the table in frustration. She faces a maximum of six years in prison. (The trial shed no light on the identities of her supposedly-famous clients, since the judge ruled that information irrelevant.) BTW: The courtroom heat...
...taking the opera world by storm. His career, which is only four years old, began when he placed second in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, an event in which both the heats and the finals are televised. Videocassettes flew around Europe, and the phone began to ring: Solti, Abbado, Sinopoli, Muti. Would Mr. Terfel (pronounced tair-vel) care to audition...
Wagner singers of any sort being rare treasures, impresarios tried to persuade him to take mighty roles. If he wanted to, he could be singing Wotan in the Ring cycle all over the world. But Terfel has another quality: intelligence. He aims to conserve his voice for a long career, so for now it is Figaro and Leporello and a few comparably medium-weight roles. He also loves to sing lieder and other nonoperatic works. Conductor Claudio Abbado remembers the "beautiful vocal subtlety and understanding" that he brought to their recording of Schumann's difficult Faust...
...referring in broad strokes to a middle- class background, private schools, piano and trumpet lessons. At 13 she modeled for a local hair salon. "I had such beautiful long blond hair," she says. Now her hair is cut short and tinged with purple dye. She wears a small silver ring in her nose, combat boots and a white T shirt on which she has written with a marker a message to the tourists she panhandles: I'd rather hear "no" than nothing...