Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back to Rome, fatty!" shouted the galleries after the late Tenor Beniamino Gigli hit a sour note. Toscanini swore never again to step into the Parma pit after a heckler upset a 1912 performance of the Forza del Destino overture by shouting "Maestro, the violins are out of tune!" But lately the gallery gadflies are getting even sharper -or performers are getting softer. Opera has almost been run out of town...
Often he rode incognito in taxicabs just to tune in on hackies' grumbles. "When the gripes are scattered around," he says, "things are going O.K.; it's when the cab drivers all complain about the same thing that you know something is wrong." He clocked 30,000 miles a year in his car, was on hand at every four-or-more-alarm fire in the city to quarterback traffic control ("anything that obstructs traffic is our concern"). He installed an elaborate electronic control system, which enabled him to play the city's traffic lights like a color...
...team returned yesterday by plane from the Midwest, in time for classes and a tune-up for tonight's North-eastern contest.DAVE GRANNIS...
...London's Wembley Pool, the biggest (12,000), noisiest crowd of the week turned out to watch Local Hero Henry Cooper tune up for a title fight with Patterson by fighting the U.S.'s seventh-ranked Zora Folley-whom Cooper had beaten in 1958. Folley had other ideas. Trimmed down to a rock-hard 194 lbs., he sliced Cooper's tender face with slashing jabs in the first round, split open his nose and left eyebrow. In the second round, blood streaming from his wounds, Cooper fielded a right with his prominent jaw and sank...
...they sing of Israel" on a Columbia recording. There are a great many other recordings of Israeli folk music; I mention two which do not include songs well-known to certain of us (such as "Hava Negila," which is now making a hit as a rock 'n' roll tune under another title...