Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foil, coach Edo Marion plans to use Dave Johnson, Dave Sweet, and either Jack Briley or Pete Kane. Marion's sabre team will include Jim Pruett, Jack Sheppard, and Sherin Reynolds. Steve Young may fence in a substitute role...
...diet example ("I lose 25 pound in three year!"), she still bore scant resemblance to a fragile and tuberculous Violetta. But the singing made up for all the production's visual defects. From the richly ornamented outpouring of awakening emotion in the first act to the flexible, bitter-sweet lyricism of the last, Tebaldi superbly defined Violetta's stirrings and renunciation; moreover, she avoided flawing the role with more than the necessary touches of sentimentality and melodrama. Baritone Leonard Warren was splendid as a resonant-voiced Germont. As Alfredo, Tenor Giuseppe Cam-pora had neither enough power...
...best known of Dawson City's dance-hall dolls, wore a $1,500 dress and a tin-can tiara lit with candles as she coaxed slow pokes with high kicks, helped the boys whoop it up at $15 a pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough Johnny Matson. who recalled her dollar-a-dance days, wooed her by mail from the Yukon. When Johnny died in 1947 she philosophized...
...loved Ike as long as he was a 'weak President.' Now that the President's social conscience is beginning to bother him, the harlots of journalism are screaming." More realistically, the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill thought that "Mr. Eisenhower's usually sugar-sweet press support is here and there becoming shrewish," but only because the press "failed from the beginning by setting up an impossible climate of perfection," and because "some elements of the so-called G.O.P. press were never really...
...working girl and her artist lover. The scene is the same turbulent Paris where Bohème's Rodolfo and Mimi loved, but while Puccini's Bohemians are really passionate Italians, Charpentier's characters are really Parisians-frothy, but a little stylized for all the sugar-sweet music. Made famous overnight by Louise in 1900, Composer Charpentier spent the rest of his life vainly trying to imitate himself, died in 1956 without having produced another success. In this performance by the Paris Opéra-Comique, an excellent cast is headed by Soprano Berthe Mommart, whose light...