rialto
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This was not a rialto over Monet’s lily pads.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
In recent months not just “Julius Caesar” but also “Hamilton” has brought a raucous and artistically challenging rialto to the center of national social discourse.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2017
Lahr, the former drama critic for the New Yorker, occasional playwright and biographer of Joe Orton and other "theatricals," knows his way around the rialto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2014
Though the vaudeville houses are gone, there are buildings redolent of the Bowery as an entertainment rialto, including the shuttered Amato Opera and the defunct Bouwerie Lane Theater and punk-rock club CBGB.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2011
Sing you, in your clear contralto, Songs I write for the rialto.
From Something Else Again by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
Between jokes, he draws on a fat little glossary of verbal rialtos that counterpoint the laughter, indicate his attitude to the material.
From Time Magazine Archive
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