Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publisher's warehouse in Milan last fall, Kalamazoo-born Conductor Thomas Schippers discovered an opera score dedicated to Queen Margherita * of Italy and tied up in purple string. In Spoleto last week, at the opening of Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds, he unwrapped his find before a capacity audience. Italian critics promptly hailed the long-forgotten work as one of the finest creations of Composer Gaetano Donizetti...
...living-room bonfire of books they didn't like, but full-bladdered e. e. cummings acted as a one-man fire department. There was the artists' ball at which Harold danced with a friend's wife, who was dressed in green powder and a black string...
...Khrushchev. "Yes," said Khrushchev, Dudintsev had borrowed his own criticisms of Soviet bureaucracy in telling of the frustrations of an inventor trying to get his invention accepted, "but he exaggerated them too much." He said that he would like to meet Dudintsev, who once protested, "I feel a leading string on myself all the time.'' But, Khrushchev complained, whenever he was ready to receive Author Dudintsev, he found that he had to talk to some ambassador or other...
...title notwithstanding, Gypsy is a singularly sobersided affair until midway in Act II, when a trio of tassel-tossing campaigners bump, grind and bring down the house in an indelicate air for the G-string called You Gotta Have a Gimmick. Burlesque may have killed vaudeville, but a lot more of it might cure Gypsy...
...charging high prices for the gas (competing fuel oil must pay 24% taxes against his 14.8%), Mattei has some flashy results to show: he has accumulated huge sums for oil exploration, owns pipelines, a tanker fleet, a spanking new synthetic rubber and fertilizer plant, and a string of thousands of bright yellow filling stations across Italy. He operates eight motels and is building nine more. He is also at work on an $80 million nuclear-power plant...