Word: windedness
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Though the role might have winded any singer, Luciano Pavarotti easily sustained the ringing high notes, the plaintive appoggiaturas, the hummingbird runs and trills. Not his own, but those of 150 hopeful young singers. Bespectacled and wrapped in a colorful shawl, the celebrated tenor spent the past two weeks judging...
When Dubuffet died of emphysema last week at 83, he was the most honored senior painter in France -- indeed the most important French visual artist of any kind to emerge since World War II. In the past two decades alone, his oeuvre had filled eight full-scale museum retrospectives and...
So why go to the trouble of holding these events? By now more than half the living, breathing people on earth know perfectly well how politicized, professionalized, commercialized the Games are, how hypocritical and often shameful their history, how short-winded the international camaraderie they engender. Would it not be...
Although we are both in Paradise, I cannot keep from writing you these incessant, voluminous, tormented letters. Forgive me, Maman, but you know as well as anyone that although I am now an immortal I am also still an asthmatic and get winded easily. So it is only in my...
In keeping with this philosophy, Davies' book delights shamelessly in the unnecessary--in gossip and cheap sex (that is, $25 for Parlabane if he'll spend a day in a nightie and granny capteasing a bachelor professor with a long pink velvet ribbon) and splendid one-liners. The last word...