Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singing career in the Italian army and made his big-time debut at Covent Garden, likes to shout down the opposition, and that he is often tight and rasping in the middle and lower registers. But his top register can be glorious, and he often makes up in sheer strength and virility for what he lacks in sensuous sound or vocal finesse. He is at his best in such stentorian roles as Manrico in // Trovatore and the title role of Ernani, and his brilliant Otello is one of the great interpretations of present-day opera...
...Russians have been sending up fighters to harass Western planes. Last week the Reds announced dozens of air corridor flight plans that would put Soviet transport planes at precisely the same altitudes at precisely the same times previously allocated to Western aircraft. This maneuver turned out to be sheer bluff; the Russian flights usually were canceled at the last minute, or the pilots simply chose a distant, safer course. But Moscow now tried another nuisance technique...
...dancers writhe in sinuous embraces, quiver with rage or horror, or flash through the remarkably flexible configurations characteristic of Graham. But sheer movement alone is not enough to trace Phaedra's tangled web of emotion. Too dependent on narrative for which it could not always find a language, Phaedra was consistently interesting, not consistently successful...
...Force calls it "The Sound of Freedom." The airline industry calls it the price of progress. The people who live near the major military airbases and commercial airports around the U.S. call it sheer hell...
...same class is Little Ava Gardner and David Niven Strand, CO 6-4000). This be a new flick, but for sheer delight it deserves top revealing love scenes with David Ava displays in glorious things that made her famous. Hut may not discuss any vital issues, but its wholesome healthy antidote to the at this trying time of year...