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...begun 'by pure good luck' when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini's La Vestale on a La Scala opening night. For a while Corelli's extracurricular antics?he punched a spectator he thought had insulted him, stabbed basso Boris Christoff with a stage sword?drew attention away from his sizable gifts as a singer ... In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage door, and there is every evidence that he may do for tenors what Ezio Pinza did for bassos. Says he: 'I attract mostly young, very beautiful girls...
...ASNE has shown their support for student press by withdrawing funds from Hampton, and other donors to the university should threaten the same. If it will not agree to give its student press more autonomy, Hampton needs to pay a price. The pen may be mightier the sword, but only when it is not sheathed by administrative censorship...
...guilt. Beating your opponent to a bloody pulp by hitting all the buttons on your controller faster than he or she did was hardly something you would call tasteful. Then came Soul Calibur (released in 1999 for the now defunct Dreamcast), the caviar and champagne of fighting games. Its sword-wielding characters preferred fencing to fisticuffs. Combat was balletic and mercifully blood-free. You won by mastering martial-arts moves, not by mashing buttons...
...other more popular acts of the night, sword-dancer Kevin Koo ’07 slashed, stabbed and parried his imaginary opponents while performing acrobatic feats and occasionally grimacing at the intense pain of an illusory wound...
...really liked Kevin’s sword dance, and the ribbon dance—it was well choreographed and technically well done,” said Bradford...