Word: virtuoso
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...classics" or not, most any show that replaces the dreary situation comedies is a welcome relief. Most notably, ABC's replay of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, powered by the virtuoso performance of Geraldine Page, is one of the finest dramas ever to appear on TV, in season...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Virtuoso Teacher" shows both aspects of Concert Violinist Joseph Fuchs's professional life: at work readying two of his Juilliard students for a music competition, and in concert with Yehudi Menuhin last summer at the Bath Festival...
With the Crimson trailing, 8-5, Harvard's Bill Wilson carried in a tying 3-point try in the second half. Wilson displayed virtuoso defensive kicking through the game, as Harvard remained undefeated for the Fall season...
...crooned the loveliest of his ballads, Yesterday, to the accompaniment of a string octet-a novel and effective backing that gave birth to an entire new genre, baroque-rock. Still another form, raga-rock, had its origins after George Harrison flipped over Indian music, studied with Indian sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, and introduced a brief sitar motif on the 1965 recording Norwegian Wood. Now everybody's making with the sitar...
Died. Paul Muni, 71, virtuoso of biographical roles; of a heart attack; in Montecito, Calif. "Method? Formula? Highfalutin words," Muni once scoffed. Trained on New York's Yiddish stage, he submerged himself in each new movie role until the actor disappeared, taking days to perfect his makeup, spending weeks learning every nuance of the characters he portrayed-an arrogant gangster in Scarf ace (1932), a fierce patriot in Juarez (1939), a dedicated scientist in The Story of Louis Pasteur, which won him a 1936 Oscar. His Hollywood appeal faded in the 1940s, but he made a triumphant return...