Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sopranos would give their last high C-in spite of a well-deserved reputation for temperamental perfectionism that has given headaches to many a colleague and caused her to cancel a number of important engagements. Blessed with a large voice that easily spans three octaves, Stratas was selected to sing the title role in Alban Berg's thorny twelve-tone shocker Lulu, when the complete opera-with its suppressed third act orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha-was given its world premiere in Paris in 1979. The late conductor Karl Böhm, mindful of Stratas' electric stage presence...
Because of their freight of dismay, White's doomsday sketches are rarely as effective as, his verse. He greets spring in New York ("Pigeon, sing Cuccu!") and rags an author about a fatuous book on farming with a review writ ten in rhymed couplets. Using mock heroic stanzas and plenty of relish he relates how a Chesapeake Bay snowstorm turned back a submarine specially equipped for polar exploration, captained by an explorer who had sold his story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits...
...punishment fit the crime. "He's a great big cuddly granddad-Santa Claus with a lovely voice," says Singer Kate Flowers, 29, who plays the heroine Yum-Yum in the musical, which was taped in London. Conrad enjoyed himself so much that he intends to sign up for singing lessons when he returns to Los Angeles. "I honestly believe I would have been much happier, although much less rich, if I had taken up singing as a career," says the budding Savoyard. "As my wife knows, I love to sing in the bathtub." -By E. Graydon Carter...
...young writer isolated here was hardly a flaming rebel. His favorite form of truancy as a boy was listening to his half-Brazilian mother play the piano and sing Brahms. Papa was a senator of the Baltic seaport town of Lübeck and a prosperous grain merchant: the perfect bourgeois figure for a young artist to revolt against...
...Listen, there's got to be something on the other side of the rainbow." At other times, he wails, "There must be a place somewhere in the world where the songs are real." But it's 1934, and only stars like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have anything to sing about. Times are hard. No one wants to buy Arthur's music. An evil bank manager refuses to lend him the money to start up a store. Worst of all, his frigid wife Joan just doesn't like sex. "I want you to cut his thing off," she cries...