Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embodiment of Mitteleuropäische glamour, Marlene Dietrich seemed an ideal addition to the Kaiserball in Vienna's Hofburg, the winter palace of the Habsburgs. Would she care to come and sing? "Would be thrilled and delighted to accept your invitation," Marlene wrote in reply to her invitation, "but unless you agree to my fee of $35,000, all further correspondence will be meaningless." There was no further correspondence. Had Marlene been a little too, well, worldly? Her pressagent had a fast answer: "When you get Dietrich you get the magic, which costs a lot of money...
...crowd of only 600 lethargic people turned out last Saturday in Bloomington, Ind. to hear Peter Yarrow, formerly of Peter, Paul and Mary, sing. Earlier in the day 12,330 basketball-crazy fans had turned out to watch Coach Bobby Knight's Hoosiers beat Harvard...
...civic beautification commission would turn the strip into a Western Champs-Elysses by obscuring the neon signs with trees or that the local planning board would prevail upon gas station owners to imitate the architecture of the casinos in the interest of architectural unity, Venturi and group hurried to sing its praises. The results of the study as well as an essay on the symbolism of sprawl and another on the work of Venturi and Rauch as practicing architects make up Venturi's latest book. Learning from Las Vegas...
...Even though Cornell has admitted women students since 1872, its 80-member Glee Club has not. Women were welcome to sing in the Sage Chapel Choir or the Cornell Chorus, but the Glee Club remained dedicated to "the study, practice, performance and promotion of music for male voices." Now, however, the Glee Club has decided to end discrimination solely on the basis of sex. Starting next semester, women are welcome to audition along with the men. There is only one condition: since the club remains dedicated to music written for male voices, only women who can sing in the tenor...
There is a duet written on a theme and variations with the words, "This duet is a set of variations based on a very short theme." The soprano embarks upon a classical slow-fast aria whose lyrics explain, "I sing this aria twice, the first time I sing it slowly in order that I may display my lyrical quality...the second time so I can display my virtuosity." A busy quartet has the baritone declaiming, "This is the quartet"; the contralto rejoicing, "I have a nice theme"; the soprano warbling, "I just sing la, la, la, la" and the tenor...