Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TERRY WEBSTER picked me out of a crowd of reporters. She asked me a question that she would have rather asked her daughter...
...last time, for we, who during the spring. Terry and husband George had drives here from their New Jersey home to empty their daughter's dorm room...
DIVORCED. Cybill Shepherd, 32, comely model turned actress-singer; and David Ford, 29, maitre d' of a Memphis nightclub; after four years of marriage; on grounds of irreconcilable differences; in Memphis. Shepherd won custody of the couple's daughter, 3, and Ford was awarded a $15,000 divorce settlement...
...first act set: it also reveals a bright new star in rapid ascent. As Leonora, Soprano Leona Mitchell, 34, sings with smoldering intensity. Each performance mingles sweet lyricism with raw-edged emotion that brings audiences to their feet, shouting bravas and tossing bouquets. From a dutiful but passionate daughter to the pathetic, penitent recluse at the end of the opera, Mitchell recalls Leontyne Price in the quality and dramatic power of her performance. Not bad for a girl from Oklahoma who didn't see her first opera until she was actually in it. Perhaps there really is such...
...almost missed her cue. The fifth and last daughter in a family of 15 children, she grew up in Enid, Okla. (pop. 50,363), a town 65 miles northwest that of Oklahoma City whose residents are usually more intent on dealing in wheat, poultry and oil than nurturing opera singers. Her father, a Pentecostal minister, played a number of instruments by ear, and her mother, a nurse, was also a pianist. Leona inherited their musical gifts, singing in the church choir and dabbling with the violin. As a senior in high school, she once learned an aria from Aida...