Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become an Alpine guide and ski instructor. In 1954 he was the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2. The next year he performed a fine one-man climb up Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru, survived six days and five nights while clawing alone up sheer rock and ice. Widely hailed by the Italian press, he replied: "I was no conqueror. I was alone, and the mountain awed me too much. I was full of worries and fear...
Simplicity predominates? the stage stands black and bare, properties have been minimized, and the scenes presented involve a minimum of physical action. The resulting emphasis on sheer ability to read poetry well suits the group's talents. But even in the final bit, the play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night's Dream, entailing a certain amount of slapstick, the players do a fine...
Only a Click. Tureck's mastery of Bach is partially the result of sheer, grinding study and immersion in his work. Once, early in her career, she decided that she was learning her Bach too fast, promptly "threw out all I'd done" and started learning over again with an entirely new pianistic technique. She would spend two days mastering four lines. Her playing is unhurried, coolly articulated and generously ornamented, has a miraculous clarity that manages to achieve some of the harpsichord's shimmering brilliance along with the piano's plump sound. Tureck believes that...
...Unlike Cerquetti, slim, dark-haired Soprano Clara Petrella, 32, has built her success as much on sheer dramatic ability as on her voice. Her voice is lyric rather than dramatic, and at La Scala she has become one of the foremost performers of contemporary music. At her best in lighter roles, she has recently turned histrionic, now longs to sing Minnie in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West...
...hostess, Kathryn leaves many a male viewer feeling that her fingers are clutching his lapels. But for sheer limb-risking vigor as a lady of 50 with five grandchildren, she is worth goggling at. In her pantomimic specialty, she has enacted cats, urchins and tramps, done somersaults, cartwheels and pratfalls, careened on roller skates and horses, swung from a chandelier and a trapeze; acrobats used her as a jump rope. Kathryn, an off-screen wit, belittles the on-screen Kathryn: "You just lend your body to anyone you know is strong." One of her daughters once asked: "Mother...