Word: tigerish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard of Callas' death, lay in "erasing the image that all opera singers are fat with horns growing out of their heads." Callas had no horns-except in the eyes of rival singers and every impresario who happened to cross her. But if the world remembers her as tigerish and svelte, it was only because she dieted away 70 Ibs. fairly early in her career-losing with them, perhaps, some of the richness of her voice. Shortly after World War II, when she was on the verge of fame as a singer in Verona and Venice and finally Milan...
LAMPPOST REUNION. A visceral bar-buddy reunion on the order of That Championship Season. The hero, possibly patterned on Frank Sinatra, is given tigerish animal magnetism by Gabriel Dell...
...surname is scarcely subtle) comes onstage in The Night of the Iguana with her blouse enticingly unbuttoned. Yet Hannah Jelkes in the same play is a stalwart saint of duty who has clearly transcended sex and is presented as a human being of nobility. Maggie the Cat is a tigerish temptress in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, though her prey is her husband, whom she is trying to lure away from alcohol and his homosexual leanings. An evil temptress is rich, aging Flora Goforth in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, who tries to corrupt...