Word: verdis
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...fence. A helicopter appeared, but then was lost again in the smoke and the spitting ashes. A fire truck came up the road at last, but its consolation was brief: we could not go down the hill, they said, nor up. We squeezed together in the van, Verdi playing on the radio, and watched my room turn into a gutted skeleton...
...majority of Verdi's work is not "atrocious...
Granted, most heavy metal is heinous. Even I admit that. But every genre contains its large share of unconscionable work. One must really listen to a lot of music, selectively, in order to locate the treasures among the trash, the pieces that move the human soul time and again. Verdi is esteemed the master of opera, but many forget that the majority of his work never gets performed--because even opera fanatics know it to be atrocious. We don't judge Guiseppe on the basis of his many horrendous compositions, but on his masterpieces like La Boheme...
Beauty, he says, "I found in St. Paul, Lao Tse,Plato, Jefferson, Diderot, Verdi and Mozart...allthose things which give happiness without making$1000 a year seem so little...
Chicago sports columnist Bob Verdi argues against the suit. Says he: "I think they ought to send it to the instant-replay official to review...