Word: callases
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Murrow's silliness on Person to Person is partially camouflaged by his formidable telegenic image: his omnipresent cigarette and theatrical voice lend dignity to everything he says. The words themselves, unfortunately, are banalities. In interviews with John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Agnes de Mille, Maria Callas, Sir Thomas...
Khan appreciates Western music--jazz, disco, opera--as long as it is unadulterated. His reactions to music are either emotional or intellectual. Bach intrigues him because his complicated fugues resemble Indian classical music in their repetition and variations on one theme. Maria Callas and Bartok are his favorites. "Bartok's...
Bing and Callas sparred continually over her roles and her schedules. In 1959, after she refused to sing Traviata and Macbeth in the same week, Bing fired her. Callas snarled publicly about "those lousy Traviatas that he wanted me to do." Bing riposted: "Mme. Callas is constitutionally unable to fit...
She had divorced Meneghini in 1959 to live with Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate. The society columns buzzed regularly for years with accounts of their parties and travels aboard an assortment of yachts. If she was hurt when he abandoned her to marry Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968, she never...
Maria Callas died last week at 53 of a heart attack in Paris. She had been living privately and comfortably in retirement. Not since 1965 had she appeared on an opera stage, nor had she given a recital since 1974. But 16th arrondissement neighbors often heard her in her apartment...