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...greater mistake. Nothing destroys a lyric tenor more quickly or completely than straining to sing those dramatic works to which his voice is not suited; the color darkens, the voice loses its beauty and unwieldly wobbles ensue. One hopes that from here on in Mr. Pavarotti will not stray too far from his proper domain and will leave the dramatic repertoire to those who can handle...

Author: By Lorenzo Mariani, | Title: A Reputation (Like Everything Else About Him), Overblown | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

...stray. Chick Corea and Return to Forever featuring Stanley Clarke will be at the Orpheum on May 15 at 7 pm. Remember the time I made all the groups have German names? Gosh, does that kind of thing go on your transcript? Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes will be at the Berklee Performance center on May 22 at 7 pm. And then there was the time me and the guys drove our mopeds through the reserve desk at Lamont...Remember the time we mixed the ham sandwiches on white bread in with the salami at the Hillel Deli supper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

...naively about Giuseppe's intense otherworldliness. Morante's symbolism is rarely more modern than the 19th century. Ida's greatest fear is that people will learn she is half Jewish-and the mother of a bastard. Ignorant of these facts, her son Antonio brings home the stray dog Blitz, and proudly announces that it is "a bastard" with a star mark on its chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Powers and the Powerless | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...fourth drive on the fourth tee: "If I don't hook this one I'm going to be ragged. That's one of the things I hate about golf--when you think you're doing something with your hands, and you're doing something else." Later on, a stray putt elicited: "What a rude putt. I just can't get the line right today...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Spring Round With Spence | 4/29/1977 | See Source »

...house, now vacant, and browsed through the kitchen. I was amused and pleased to find a can of Goodman's macaroons and three loaves of store-bought bread lying next to the organically grown fruits and vegetables. I have little faith in fanatical purists, and the stray bits of cellophane-wrapped junk food made the valley residents' convictions about energy and nature, waste and consumption emerge with more validity in my mind than if they were just the rhetoric of some perverse cult...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: A California Eden | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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