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Examples
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Guy Calaf/Bloomberg The war of the "wallets" is escalating.
War Over the Digital Wallet Amir Efrati 2011
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Puccini's final opera is about the man-hating Chinese queen Turandot, and Calaf, the man who finally melts her icy heart.
Top 50 operas 2011
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After "In Questa Reggia" in which she explains why she hates men and her tormented, house-filling duet with Calaf just before her abrupt change of heart, I was ready to concede that she may be the finest Turandot singing today.
A Season of Meager Delights David Littlejohn 2011
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Yet he was totally integrated and committed to the production, and was certainly by miles the best Calaf I've seen.
The Muse, or, Voglio Turandot! Imogen 2009
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Calaf is initially repulsed and enraged by what Turandot requires, and what she does to people; by her power and her potency, her casual, emotionless cruelty, and her ability to ensnare and overwhelm.
Archive 2009-01-01 Imogen 2009
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The entire Chinese court wear either full or half-masks most of the time, and only Calaf and his family are allowed the fully human expressiveness of their own bare faces.
Archive 2009-01-01 Imogen 2009
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Yet he was totally integrated and committed to the production, and was certainly by miles the best Calaf I've seen.
Archive 2009-01-01 Imogen 2009
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It's a sticky issue - on the one hand, one must make that total, Calaf-like comittment, but on the other hand one must stay alive, and although "man does not live by bread alone", man does not live by paint alone, either; nor by words, nor by sitting in the lab staring into the electron microscope until one's eyes bug out...
End of the week already... Imogen 2009
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The entire Chinese court wear either full or half-masks most of the time, and only Calaf and his family are allowed the fully human expressiveness of their own bare faces.
The Muse, or, Voglio Turandot! Imogen 2009
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It's a sticky issue - on the one hand, one must make that total, Calaf-like comittment, but on the other hand one must stay alive, and although "man does not live by bread alone", man does not live by paint alone, either; nor by words, nor by sitting in the lab staring into the electron microscope until one's eyes bug out...
Archive 2009-01-01 Imogen 2009
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