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...violinlike legato line, is as warm and as opulent as any in opera; her handling of it is a wonder of intelligence sharpened by instinct. No singer, not even Callas, has a more acute dramatic sense, as Soprano Price has demonstrated in her definitive portrayals of Aïda, Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Minnie in this season's Met opener, The Girl of the Golden West. ("You can get into this part," said Price buoyantly, "and swing it around.") The reason, perhaps, is that the girl from Laurel, Miss., can dream her way into the heart...
Which gave the plot of Aïda, Verdi...
...fullface portrait of John F. Kennedy Jr. since his christening, revealed that, although the picture shows him chomping on a toy rooster, a hand-me-down steam engine from Sister Caroline is actually his favorite possession. Other vital statistics cleared for release: weight-23 lbs.; height-30 in.; vocabulary-"Da-da, Mama and other noises...
...mostly domestic. Only one before 1939-that ol a nun torn asunder by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War-echoes the horror of Guernica. Picasso painted still lifes, a bird or two, portraits of Dora and Picasso's daughter Maia. But one da>' he finished an anguished woman who looked as if she were racked by some grisly disease. As World War II descended on Europe. Picasso's women became savage, lunatic figures done in colors that scream with rage. The agony vanished as suddenly as it came: once again, Picasso's Picassos came home...
...curse is almost taken off these caricatures by Director Howard Da Silva, who treats the entire play as an animated cartoon strip. Actor-Playwright Davis stirs up intermittent fun with a flamboyantly well-paced performance and some sharp wisecracks, e.g., "You are a disgrace to the Negro profession." The plot hinges (and the hinge often creaks) on an attempt to trick Cap'n Cotchipee out of $500 so that Purlie can buy back Big Bethel Church and "preach freedom in the cotton patch...