Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bella hit the roof when he heard the news, for he reserved the honor of the first official visit of a chief of state to Algeria since its independence for a real advocate of "socialist Arab nationalism," Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. For all Morocco's warm cooperation during the struggle with France, the high-living young monarch's autocratic ideas are anathema to Ben Bella and his crusading idealists. "Hassan is the last person we want to see here at this time," gritted an Algerian official. "But he will be treated as a guest should...
...former pupil, Ferrari Trecate had his three-act opera written within a year. But after one quiet 1953 performance in Parma, it lay forgotten until Rome decided to produce it again. Its minor-key Italianate melodies, skillfully woven into choral passages that hint of Negro spirituals, are warm and rich in legato beauty, completely devoid of any modernisms, reminiscent of Puccini. The first-night audience in Rome greeted it with 20 curtain calls, and Roman critics pronounced it good enough for the regular repertory...
...some eyes it may look like Jack, Bobby and Teddy on the Cape. The other is a watercolor of the artist's wife; Jackie paid "less than $1,000" for each. Anshutz' later work is mostly full-length portraits of women, pictures that effortlessly evoke the warm drawing-room atmosphere of the early 20th century. The women themselves could almost be contemporary...
...larger ambitions. "I'm gonna drive down Walnut Street in a Caddy on Derby Day." he says, "and all the people will point and say, 'There goes Cassius Clay.' Pretty girls will be there, and I'll smell the flowers and feel the nice warm night air. Oh, I'm cool then, man. I'm cool. The girls are looking at me, and I'm looking away...
...they could. The lights dimmed. A spotlight caught Jones, a black fireplug of a man, in a yellow and purple robe. The crowd cheered. Then the spot swung around and picked up Clay, dressed all in white-white robe, white trunks, white shoes. The crowd hooted. There was warm applause for the ring introductions-Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano, Barney Ross, Dick Tiger-champions all. Then more boos for Clay. And still more, as he danced and waved and made faces at his tormentors...