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speaking of vulgar, you guys are aware that the word comes from the volga river, and its barbaric tribe, the vulgar/bulgars, from which we got the word bugger (originally to imply a heretic, later, a sexual heretic). today, the country of bulgaria…
What a wanker.
Stella Barbare – Barbara Hendricks was by far the most amusing and quick-minded soprano I ever met professionally.
Behind that reserved exterior is a sharp brain and a quick, even sassy wit. Not the world’s greatest voice or interpreter, perhaps (though her Liu with Karajan is rather lovely), but one can understand why journalists who met her were so taken with her.
I think you mean ‘criterion’, harry, love.