Word: amelita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweet Laments. The astonishing thing about all the hoopla is that Sills has been singing virtually in the Met's shadow all her life. As a seven-year-old named Belle Silverman in Brooklyn, she learned to imitate all her mother's records of the legendary diva Amelita Galli-Curci, and by nine she was singing arias like Caro nome and The Bell Song in a Manhattan radio studio on the Major Bowes Capitol Family Hour...
Checks Preferred. The kind of controversy that really upsets Miss America officials, however, is generated by girls who are outspoken about the unabashed commercialism of it all. "It's a form of prostitution," said Amelita Facchiano, who as Miss Winston-Salem was eliminated in the 1970 Miss North Carolina contest. Maria Fletcher, the girl who won that competition in 1961 and went on to be Miss America, was more philosophical: "The sooner you realize you're a product, the better." Dressed, coiffured and paraded up and down, contestants are like dolls for moms and dads. "Miss America," says...