Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earthy Presence. Others seeking to identify Leontyne Price's special quality also point not only to her voice but to her person. There are many superb operatic voices among comparative newcomers: Birgit Nilsson. Anna Moffo, Anita Cerquetti, Teresa Berganza, Joan Sutherland. Leonie Rysanek. What distinguishes Price from them as a performer is a kind of earthy presence-a quality that has little to do with acting. Many sopranos and actresses have been called "the essential female" but Leontyne Price convinces most of her audiences that she really fits the description. Not beautiful but with almost translucent brown skin, high...
...Millionairess. British Comedian Peter Sellers is superb as the medic in an otherwise heavy-handed remake of Shaw's comedy, with Sophia Loren singularly unfunny as the rich-bitch heroine. Sellers is also on view in Two-Way Stretch, an excellent prison farce...
...Yale was superb in running up the highest point total in Heptagonal history. The Elis notched six firsts--Bill Flippin with 7.7 in the hurdles, Stack in the 600, Carroll in the 1000, Bobby Mack with a Barton record 4:16.5 in the mile, Sam Streibert with 6 ft., 6 in. in the high jump, and the two-mile relay unit with...
...have really done yourself proud in your story on the "Big O." You refer to the N.B.A.'s superb star, but may I use the very same adjective in reference to your coverage of the star...
...lyric, South Africa's King Kong was introduced last week to the London musical stage. Drawn from life in the shantytowns around Johannesburg, it gave its West End audiences a chance to see the result of a big event in theatrical history: a superb jazz opera written, directed and produced by South African whites, scored, sung and acted by South African blacks...