Word: voce
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...watch them "implode" the Grossinger Playhouse, where innumerable comics, singers and dancers had broken in their acts. Dynamite would knock down the floors and ceilings, leaving only a gaunt wooden frame. Bulldozers would take care of that. From some of the older witnesses, the word oy was repeated sotto voce all morning...
...research is cryptic, slipshod and so vaguely defined that other experts cannot tell how many patients have actually been cured of their sexual woes. Have the two ever revealed their criteria for successful sex therapy? asked a reporter. "Innumerable times," answered an exasperated Masters. Did he ever reveal-sotto voce in a San Francisco bar-that a woman who has one orgasm in five years is cured of anorgasm? "I never said it," he snapped...
There are few big laughs in Oblomov, but it has something of the sotto voce subversiveness that Director Nikita Mikhalkov brought to A Slave of Love, his study of early Russian film makers. He knows how to generate moral and intellectual tension in unlikely places, how to speak for individuality in a place where it is not highly valued. In short, he is an artist-and a fine one. -By Richard Schickel
...with him. Trying to protect a 1-run lead, McGregor gave up a bunt single. Brett stepped up. He nicked off five foul balls that were not quite to his liking. In between, he stepped out of the batter's box to talk to himself, a sotto voce monologue designed to keep up his confidence. "I'm hot," Brett informed himself, an assertion no pitcher would dispute. "I'm gonna...
...finally embraced his infant son, viewers responded with nearly 10,000 letters-half saying "Thank God!," the other half saying "Don't ruin it by reforming him.") Hagman developed a touch for light comedy on TV in the '60s sitcom / Dream ofJeannie. He plays the villainy sotto voce and the humor-the infectious delight J.R. brings to the business of malevolent one-upmanship-fortissimo. He struts, whinnies, talks out loud to himself; he has a grand time being bad. His soft, smooth, surprisingly characterless face expresses J.R.'s childishness; but those huge blue eyes testify to ages...