Word: coventionalism
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...said, 'As a teenager, I stood in the rain outside the stage door at Covent Garden when you were dancing because I was such an admirer and I wanted your autograph...
...when he was beginning to make breaker-size ripples in the international opera pool, his wife died of a brain tumor, leaving him with their toddler Ornella. Then last year in London he fell in love with a beautiful Romanian soprano, Angela Gheorghiu, 30, who was making headlines at Covent Garden as Violetta in Sir Georg Solti's production of La Traviata. The pair have been together ever since, as inseparable as two can be who must manage separate singing careers; they plan to marry in the next couple of weeks. "It's destiny," Alagna cries. "Very good destiny!" Naturally...
...version also saddled with Julian Holloway's cutesy capering as Eliza's debauched father, Dolores Sutton's vamping as Higgins' mother and sets that make the Covent Garden flower market look like a Florida condo in mid- construction and render Higgins' study fit for a Vincent Price horror flick, Chamberlain shows calculated charm and wit. He sings better than Rex Harrison and looks terrific. His best scenes are with the normally bland Pickering, whom Paxton Whitehead makes droll...
...remarkable campaign of dirty tricks that used code names such as "Mission Atlantic" and "Operation Covent Garden," B.A. (which operates 250 airliners) fought for more than two years to destroy the reputation of its tiny (eight planes) competitor and steal its passengers. But a London court has ordered the giant airline to pay Virgin's flamboyant founder Richard Branson $945,000 in damages and pick up court costs approaching $3 million. Branson is now mulling whether to sue B.A. in U.S. courts...
...original Beadworks store is located in London's Covent Garden, and Huntsaid that more U.S. branches are planned forDallas and Boston...