Word: voce
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...evening's San Francisco Opera Guild benefit, introduced his partner Beverly Sills. "I won't tell you how old am or how much I weigh," said the 44-year-old soprano, who weighs more than 119 Ibs., "but I'll sing." She delivered Una voce poco fa from It Barbiere di Siviglia, prompting Grey to begin the duet Là ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni. But the bantam of the opera was no match for the diva, who drowned him out. Said Sills: "He's more sexy with." Said the don: "Cesare Siepi...
...voce terribile? The crude...
...mixed, so if you listen through headphones you can hear Muldaur's glassy slide guitar on the left channel and Amos Garrett's lead guitar on the right, both in conversation with Paul's biting harp way up in the mix. Muldaur and Butterfield grind out the vocals una voce and, in the company of Maria Muldaur's (Geoff's wife) restrained fiddle, the band displays one of the best personal interpretations of Delta blues that has come out in a long time...
...Yale quarterback Joe Massey '71 in the star of my Latin class. What to do? Needless to say after the umbrella incident I am sitting on the Harvard side again. But now a shout for Joe might provoke my beloved confreres. How about an exhortation Latina voce? Negative. Suppose John Finley is nearby. Or Glen Bowersock. Or the Pope. I fear not violence, but some Ciceronian distribe nailed to the Field House door: te in Orcum demittimus--vale Segale! No, discretion bids me clam up and pray that the Harvard tacklers leave Joe's conjugations intact...
...Aldonza, the scullery maid, gets a rather rough going-over from a rabble of lustful admirers. So much the worse for Sophia Loren that Director Arthur (Love Story) Hiller, currently making the movie in Rome, is a perfectionist. After umpteen retakes of the strenuous scene, Sophia was pleading sotto voce with the extras: "Take it easy, boys. I'm black and blue all over...