Word: tigerishness
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...narcolepsy (which becomes most pronounced during the heroine's stupendous singing of the work's signature aria Vissi d'arte) all figure heavily in a send-up that shatters every cliche in the trunk. Opera buffs can delight in spotting references to great, legitimate performances--from Tosca's tigerish poses a la Maria Callas to Cavaradossi's Castilian lisp, a dig at Spanish tenor Jose Carreras...
...narcolepsy (which becomes most pronounced during the heroine's stupendous singing of the work's signature aria Vissi d'arte) all figure heavily in a send-up that shatters every cliche in the trunk. Opera buffs can delight in spotting references to great, legitimate performances -- from Tosca's tigerish poses a la Maria Callas to Cavaradossi's Castilian lisp, a dig at Spanish tenor Jose Carreras...
There she lies: a traditional reclining nude, very like Ingres's La Grande Odalisque, the body blandly composed, smooth, supernaturally white. But the feet are unclassically dirty from padding around a grimy atelier. The model's face, half turned toward the camera, wears an unsettling tigerish expression. In another picture, black-clad climbers struggle up the snowy folds of Mont Blanc looking like a necklace of chocolate chips dropped into a vanilla sundae. Meanwhile, journalistic history is displayed in a set of pictures and captions from the first interview ever recorded (in 1886) for both...
...heard of Callas' death, lay in "erasing the image that all opera singers are fat with horns growing out of their heads." Callas had no horns-except in the eyes of rival singers and every impresario who happened to cross her. But if the world remembers her as tigerish and svelte, it was only because she dieted away 70 Ibs. fairly early in her career-losing with them, perhaps, some of the richness of her voice. Shortly after World War II, when she was on the verge of fame as a singer in Verona and Venice and finally Milan...
LAMPPOST REUNION. A visceral bar-buddy reunion on the order of That Championship Season. The hero, possibly patterned on Frank Sinatra, is given tigerish animal magnetism by Gabriel Dell...