Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven years in prison, including a spell at New York's Sing Sing for armed robbery, inspired Miguel Pinero, 27, to become Broadway's first Puerto Rican playwright. For writing Short Eyes (TIME, April 8), based on his experiences behind bars, Pinero walked away with this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the best American play. Last week, however, it seemed that Pinero might be germinating a new plot. Approaching a subway token booth in a downtown Manhattan station around 12:35 a.m., he was overtaken by a swarm of youths, who vaulted...
...stage effects; in accordance with the Parisian fondness for such stuff, it was one of the favorites of 19th century French opera. Set in 1 5th century Switzerland, the story concerns the persecution of Eleazar, a Jewish goldsmith, and his foster daughter Rachel. Before his execution, Eleazar gets to sing one of the tenderest arias in tenor literature, Rachel, quand du Seigneur. Caruso and Martinelli sang the role, and Richard Tucker has been begging for years to sing it at the Met. So far, he has had to settle for a staged performance in New Orleans last October...
...campaign changed much of this. Politics became a consuming topic. Not only did the children accompany their father on campaign trips, but Henri and Valérie-Anne sold the now famous Giscard à la Barre! (Giscard at the helm) T shirts, planned bicycle tours of Paris and organized sing-ins at the Etoile. Mme. Giscard was constantly on call for press interviews. While she realizes that the presidency will intrude on the family's private life, she hopes that it will be "as little as possible. I hope I won't be obliged to cloister myself...
...talk. He plays a recording of the last ten seconds of the big game, and as the boys sit up and listen the bitterness begins to fade. Then the bad feelings disappear altogether as the coach plays the old school fight song and everyone stands up to sing...
...show! I'll write the music and you'll sing! We can use your father's old hippodrome...