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...resumed her career in a wheelchair after being stricken by infantile paralysis in 1941; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. Lawrence specialized in Wagnerian roles and after her illness made a triumphant comeback at the Metropolitan Opera in 1943 singing Venus in Tannhauser while seated on a divan. She detailed her struggles with illness in her 1949 autobiography, Interrupted Melody, and in subsequent years taught opera at several U.S. colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 29, 1979 | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...snake in woman's dress, a harridan spitting venom and a wily warrior wielding a spiked club. Perhaps most shocking to the puritanical Chinese are caricatures of Chiang Ch'ing as a trollop. In one of many variants on this theme, she is shown reclining on a divan decorated with dollar signs, her skirt hiked up, while two of her sycophants nibble on her fingers and toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: They Are Maligning the Madame | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...MOOD IS quiet, subdued. A husband is questioning his wife about her old friend, Anna, who is due to visit them after an absence of 20 years. She sits on a divan, her back to him, answering his questions perfunctorily, but guarding her thoughts, her memories of Anna. She will use those moments later, as a weapon against the two of them, but for now she sits back dreamily, waiting...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Memories | 11/6/1976 | See Source »

Playing opposite her, Cornelia Ravenel makes a low-key, sensuous and soft-spoken Kate. Enwrapped in fantasy, she lounges on her divan, her eyes half-closed, as her two lovers fight for the territory of her body; then, terrible in her knowledge, she strikes back, her soft voice hissing vindictiveness. It is all remarkably effective...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Memories | 11/6/1976 | See Source »

Bosom Buddies. The climax of the opening ceremonies seemed to herald a match between Genghis Khan and Catherine of Russia. King was borne in on a red-draped gold divan by four bare-chested men wearing slave armbands, while Riggs entered in a ricksha pulled by five of the ample girls he refers to as "bosom buddies." He presented Billie Jean with a large Sugar Daddy sucker ("for the biggest sucker in the world"); the stunt had Billie Jean's full cooperation, since it reportedly earned each a fast fat $20,000. King responded by giving Bobby a live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How King Rained on Riggs' Parade | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

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