Word: signore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fervent admirer of Signor Pavarotti's voice and technique, but I find it unfortunate that you referred to Renata Scotto in such a negative manner. In the televised La Gioconda. Scotto, singing magically, was the full embodiment of opera as drama, intense, heartbreaking and constantly exciting...
Occasionally Pavarotti will gather a few guests into his gray Mercedes for the two-hour drive to Modena. There, in the cobbled square in front of the city's handsome Romanesque cathedral, he is greeted familiarly as "Luciano" by seemingly hundreds of old friends and schoolmates, and as "Signor Tenore" by everyone else. His father, 65, still sings in the church choir and local chorus-and now enjoys the status of a recording artist, thanks to a few small roles on Pavarotti's albums. Both parents will join the Pavarotti ménage soon. Luciano plans to settle...
...great cookbook can compete with any adventure novel. It will have glamorous, expensive leading characters like Mam'selle Canard and Signor Vitello, and a savory supporting cast. There will be cuttings and slicings, pairings and peelings, as in any other thriller, and the unpredictable can always be expected. Like a good novel, a well-done cookbook is also a sociological document, recording the infinite ways in which people all over the world nourish, titillate and please, borrowing from one culture, lending to another. Even before the Romans planted vines in Southern France, before Marco Polo returned from China bearing...
...play, and Manulis's cast manages to carry most of them off with a fair degree of competence. Michael Kriesman as the Duke of Norfolk, More's friend, aptly embodies the gusty energy of Tudor aristocracy, while Jon Goerner seems made for the role of the slimy Spanish ambassador Signor Chapuys. Gene Sykes also turns in a clever performance as The Common Man, whose life, with its daily compromises and bartering of self, Bolt considers the analogue...
...signor, dolente io sono (My Lord, I am sorry...