Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph. Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful college tour, stands to make $1,000,000 this year...
...leans over and whispers to her, "You should have seen your pupils dilate just now." Michelle just smiles softly. They are enjoying themselves, but not at their audience's expense; beneath their antics, you get the feeling, is an intense and concentrated intelligence. That combination -- plus song writing and vocal talent -- gives them a tremendous built-in advantage over every other group (except the Beatles) in the business. As you watch them you are almost irresistibly tempted to ask them what their sleeping arrangements are, but refrain because you know they would probably tell it to you straight...
...World Series cheering faded than the Baltimore Orioles' Frank Robinson, 31, set off to make some noises of his own. In Manhattan with his wife Barbara to pick up the Corvette Sting Ray that Sport magazine gave him for being the Series' standout, Frank began exercising his vocal cords for the winter's after-dinner speaking circuit, which will keep him busy describing how he won batting's Triple Crown and then went on to wreck the Los Angeles Dodgers with two more homers in the Series. Frank, who stands to collect about...
...were abstracts and figuratives, but it was not long before Orlow discovered that the workers tired of the latter almost as swiftly as they tired of their machines. From then on, Orlow stuck strictly to abstracts, moving them about his factory every two or three months-sometimes to the vocal displeasure of employees who had grown fond of a particular painting. At such moments, says Orlow, "I know they really love them...
...libretto was the soaring music of Strauss, conducted with thunderous brilliance by the late composer's gifted friend, Karl Bohm. By turns raging and receding, mischievous and mystical, the orchestration powerfully underscored the mysterious gulfs between the two worlds and buttressed each role with bold, contrasting shades of vocal writing. Big, robust, infinitely rich, Die Frau was symphonic opera music-and Metropolitan Opera-at its best...