Word: shower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went with his younger brother to Camp Molloy, a Catholic camp on Long Island, where one of the counselors wanted him to sing in the camp show. Gilbert was reluctant, but the counselor advised, "Just look at the light over your head and make believe you're in the shower." He looked up and sang, and the shower was one of loud applause. That day Gilbert discovered he had a fine soprano voice...
...rich, ringing tenor of Franco Corelli as Mario. In the poignant Vissi d'Arte aria, Callas relied almost wholly on dramatic rather than vocal brilliance to carry her through-which, in her case, is admittedly a compelling compromise. The audience certainly thought so. At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down from the galleries, and the house bravoed on for half an hour of curtain calls...
...Marlene loyally praised the very hardships he put her through, as when he made her walk barefoot across the blazing desert while filming Morocco with Gary Cooper. But to Sternberg this was no more than a deliberate plot designed by Dietrich to gain public admiration for herself and to shower abuse on him. He recognizes some talent in her, chiefly an ability to follow direction, but dismisses this, as he does all acting, as a gift of no importance "requiring only a relatively minor ability to mimic." He mentions her husband, Rudolf Sieber, grudgingly, never speaks of her daughter...
Physically, the school for which Hamilton set this goal is as spectacular as its symbol, the rainbow. Its 268-acre campus abounds in landscaped lawns, red and yellow hibiscus, shower trees and coconut palms. Semicircled by the greenery of Manoa Valley's bordering volcanic mountains, the campus overlooks Honolulu, Waikiki Beach and Mamala Bay. Student dress is almost as colorful as the sunsets. An Indian girl in a scarlet sari strolls with a Chinese girl in sneakers and blue jeans. Caucasian girls in muumuus and poi pounders (an above-knee muumuu with long, tight pants) vie for attention with...
Once out of the shower, he soaked his hands in a sink of boiling water until they were puckered and wrinkled. Then he took a sleeping pill to make himself dizzy and held a cigarette in his face, letting the smoke roll up into his eyes...