Word: divan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Aida at La Scala in 1950, she startled the crowd by stalking about like a hungry leopard instead of taking the usual stately stance for her Act III duet. In the death scene of Fedora, in which sopranos tend to expire stiffly on a divan, Callas staggers from it, sags to her knees, drags herself up, crawls towards her lover's room, collapses again before she finally rolls down and dies. In Norma she has cried real tears. Operagoers. long reconciled to the classic, three-gesture range of other prima donnas, are astounded and delighted...
...Peer Hugo would have been prosecuted if the King (as the wits said) had not hastily commissioned from the angry husband a series of frescoes, which caused him to forgive his wife. Hugo was downcast, but agreed with the friend who said: "One can rise again, even from a divan...
...Siberian border town to which Dostoevsky was sent as an army private after his release from prison. Soon the smitten 33-year-old soldier and the sensitive lady were holding hands and crying into each other's sweet tea while hubby sprawled in a drunken stupor on the divan. After Isaev died, they were married. But Maria was frigid, and Dostoevsky was soon complaining: "We're living so-so . . . The heart will wither. I am quite alone...
Female on the Beach (Universal). "Come away with me to Los Angeles!" the wealthy widow (Judith Evelyn) implores. Her hands wander idly over the alluring mass of rented muscle that lies sprawled upon her divan. Alas, no cash, no mash. To make ends meet, Jeff Chandler has hired out as a sex shill to a couple of confidence gamesters at a California seashore resort, and when the lady starts pinching pennies. Jeff stops pinching her. He just picks up his muscles and walks out. That same night the lady dies. "I'm sorry," says Jeff, and waits a full...
...when Husband Willy's production line was flagging, he said to his wife, who was sprawled on the divan with the cat: "You ought to put your school memories onto paper. Don't be frightened of piquant details . . . Funds are low." Ever obedient, Colette bought school exercise books and jotted down neatly her adolescent story. Claudine at School (signed "Willy") appeared in 1900, sold 50,000 copies in the first year and is still selling in 1954. Almost as successful was the first sequel, in which Heroine Claudine "[receives her] first lessons in seduction, meets her perverted second...