Word: robusto
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...fact, he has been in Alcoholics Anonymous since he was 19. He doesn't eat meat. He's all about boundaries. Last year Autograph Collectors magazine ranked him No. 4 on its list of the world's worst autograph signers. Maguire has exactly one vice, illegal Cuban Cohiba Robusto cigars. On this morning, he smokes two before noon. In a three-hour interview, he makes exactly one joke. Asked if he is worried about the cigars messing up his million-dollar voice, he pretends to be offended. "A million?" he says, as if that's not enough. (Fact...
...broke into the Met in 1945 with almost no previous operatic experience. He freely confesses his lack of acting talent, but under proper direction he has produced some fine dramatic characterizations, e.g., Don José, Turiddu, Farrando in Così Fan Tutte. He has a big, warm, sensuous tenore robusto...
...took pleasure in setting him straight. "I can sing as well as I ever could," he insists-although "I would not say I could get through Otello or Aïda now." Those who heard him sing Ideale were surprised at the ease and quality of the old tenor robusto's voice. The catch, and the reason for his retirement from the Met in 1945: "It is the heart . . . When one is older, the heart cannot bear the strain and worry and excitement [of the opera stage]. It tells on the voice." However, he finds TV more pleasure than...
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