Word: impromptue
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...John Bernard as Alfredo, a character whose very name suggests the world of opera he was to lambaste. Bernard seemed for all the world to be reprising Kevin Kline's role in A Fish Called Wanda, only with a better grasp of Italian. His onstage, offstage, and backstage impromptu arias paid tribute to "La Traviata," "Tosca," "Turandot," "L'Elisir d'Amore," "Der Rosenkavalier, "Aida," and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." As Rosalinda's lover, his goodbye kiss at the end of act one, when he was being falsely arrested as Eisenstein, was perfect--a kind...
...moment is wasted around Bailey. Classical music filters through the apartment; Ocon is a great believer in the music's ability to raise her daughter's I.Q. Standing over the stove stirring a pot of baked beans, Bailey's new-found craving, Ocon bends over for an impromptu vocabulary lesson...
...multi-task. Bill Clinton was already juggling diplomacy with politics on his South American tour ? mixing high-level meetings and goodwill visits to slums with as many plugs as possible for the fast-track trade-agreement powers he is seeking from Congress. Then he finds himself in an impromptu Air Force One press briefing on campaign finance, assuring us he will offer himself to Janet Reno for questioning. As if all this wasn't enough, Clinton now has to decide exactly how he is going to use his line-item veto pencil on the $248 billion Defense Appropriations bill...
...tried to pass alongside the impromptu audience in the Yard and heard the unmistakable cadences of President Neil L. Rudenstine's voice over the loudspeakers, I suddenly realized what was going on: opening exercises for the Class of 2001. In a fit of nostalgia, or perhaps just the ambling curiosity of a junior who fondly remembers her days in Canaday, I took a seat on the steps of Widener and eavesdropped as dean after dean warned the first years about what to expect before the millennium was up. As I glanced around the Yard, I noticed that aside from...
...improvisational grille" Fire and Ice, is open for business and is dishing up impromptu meals at 50 Church Street...