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...husband using your career to try to take the kids away. Mothers with high-powered jobs like Marcia Clark, the prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, may have the most to worry about. In a flurry of recent custody battles, women who don't conform to the Donna Reed notion of motherhood have lost custody to men who slightly exceed Homer Simpson's idea of fatherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOES FATHER KNOW BEST? | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...small wonder that the saucy Musetta, played by Penny Rubinfield, proves too much for him in the third act. Rubinfield is a fiesty flirt who uses the low dramatic energy around her to her advantage; she draws every eye to her, both on stage and off, with admirable seconda donna tactics. The conviction and simplicity of Josh Benaim's cameo "coat aria" in the fourth act place the aria closer to Puccini's original intentions than many a bass who overplay the fact that they are singing to a coat and end up looking, well, goofy...

Author: By Jefferson Packer, | Title: Rhapsody, Lowell's Boheme | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala proposed government activism in tackling the problems of domestic violence in a speech at the Kennedy School last night...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Shalala Speaks at K-School | 3/7/1995 | See Source »

Degrees of Stardom: Although at the time I met him, Keanu had just been promoted in the legions of teeny-bopper magazines from `star' to `superstar,' Barbra was clearly the reigning prima donna. I was just another kid to Barbra. I was something more to Keanu--I was Keanu's friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANALYSIS | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

...Sulpice scene from Manon, a passionate encounter between lovers in a monastery, brings on the prima donna ``Vera Galupe-Borszkh,'' a.k.a. ``La Dementia.'' Wearing a colossal red fright wig and more lipstick than Lucille Ball, she commands the stage like Bette Midler on Benzedrine, casting her stratospheric soprano to the bleachers as it veers between ear-splitting fortissimos and never-ending pianissimos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALSETTOS AND FALSIES | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

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