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...Arnold Voketaitis, from the New York City Center, were a striking pair, visually and aurally. Striking, indeed. It was not possible to determine what notes Voketaitis was singing in his low register because his intonation was so muddy down there. In loud passages requiring jumps, Miss Cornell tended to shriek. Their few stage gestures, made while rooted to their positions on either side of Swoboda, were ludicrous...
...same violent mood serves him well later when he emits a shriek of triumph after the play scene, when he offers more-than-filial embraces to his mother, and when he mimics the affected posturing of Rosencrantz in the recorder scene...
Rival players taunted the dandified A's: "Hiya, beautiful." Batters quavered when Harvey burst from his hole with a shriek. The A's still finished in the ruck (ninth in 1961 and 1962, eighth in 1963), and fans stayed home in droves. Over three seasons, the Athletics averaged 694,000 fans-third-worst attendance in the league-and Owner Finley glumly totted up losses of $1,028,000-bringing his total investment to more than...
...past three years, while prices have risen only 14% . At a Kyoto rally, he asked: "Which do you think is better? The Socialists' advocacy of dividing three eggs among four people? Or Ikeda's policy of dividing eight eggs among four people?" On election day, amid the shriek of sirens that reminded people to vote, Ikeda's Liberal-Democratic Party won control of the 467-seat House of Representatives for another four years, although the government's 283-seat total fell three short of its share in the old House. The Socialists gained seven seats...
...serial portraits are those of screaming pontiffs modeled after a papal commission by Velásquez (see opposite page). Though he has been through Rome, where Pope Innocent X's portrait hangs in the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, Bacon has never gone to see it. The gum-baring shriek that gapes out of so many of his portraits is copied from a still from Sergei Eisenstein's film of 1925, The Battleship Potemkin, in which a horrified nurse is shot point-blank through her pince-nez. Why these subjects? "They haunt me," Bacon replies...