Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, Alaska's Senator Ernest Gruening, one of the most vocal critics of Administration policy in Viet Nam, delivered a furious speech in the Senate: "Unhappily, the U.S. press has been gravely derelict in reporting what has transpired in the OAS with regard to the Dominican crisis. Commentators express doubts regarding the wisdom of expanding our mission to prevent a Communist takeover. Many reports question the extent of Communist infiltration. Yet, to my knowledge, none of the major wire services, newspapers or radio-television systems have taken the trouble to examine the findings of the OAS investigating team...
...been alleged that John Lithgow is a giraffe. Those who maintain this position malign his genius. He is the best comic actor at Harvard, not for any physical peculiarity, but because his sense of timing, his vocal and muscular control, are more refined than anyone else...
...Callas today gives performances brimming with passion. But this newly recorded Callas has a nearly unbeatable rival-the Callas of twelve years ago. Since then her voice and even, occasionally, her characterization have hardened, and though the drama may at times be heightened, cerebral firepower is no substitute for vocal beauty. Baritone Tito Gobbi is again a superb Scarpia...
...than at the '30s. The show's parodies of parlor-pink dance epics, and the "knock knock" pun craze are too self-consciously silly to be funny. A tune-drab, dance-starved, lead-witted musical is scarcely the dream debut for a star, but Liza Minnelli puts vocal muscle and wistful appeal into her spindling role. She has the wide famished eyes of a waif, that vulnerable little-child look of hunger and wonder. Like her mother,Judy Garland, she produces the Big Sound spontaneously, though she phrases her songs with a dramatic intensity more like that...
...psychotic episodes and occasionally flirted with suicide. He tried heroin and hashish. For years, he once confessed, he was a compulsive masturbator. He wrote love letters in baby talk, named his women like horses (Babu Mio, My Golden Girl), and guzzled bromide by the bottle. He was a fiercely vocal champion of artistic integrity who forced publishers to print the works of half-baked eccentrics. He was a noisily relentless foe of vested interests and social injustice who admired Machiavelli and kept a wad of money in the stock market. He was a mystic. He was also a powerful...