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...five were columnists Joan Beck of the Chicago Tribune and Donna Britt of The Washington Post in the commentary-column writing category; Michael Gartner, editor and chairman of The Daily Tribune in Ames, Iowa, for editorial writing; staff writer Anne Hull of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times for non deadline writing; and Ken Wells, senior writer for the Wall Street Journal, for headline writing...
...DONNA SHALALA...
...recording of Carmen designed for little children strikes a humorous chord in anyone who has wondered how the lithe, scantily clad, and sexually uninhibited gypsy girl of Merimee's novel came to be transformed in the opera houses of mid-twentieth century America into the postured prima donna in the floor-lenght dress whose idea of sexual flirtation is to glue her chin to her chest and to peep out coquettishly from behind a feathered black fan. The initially negative reaction of the audience at Carmen's premiere in Paris (an audience who went to the Opera Comique expecting...
...perfectly beautiful voice. You can't do an opera all by yourself. No matter how big a superstar you are, if you don't have a collaboration with your colleagues, you're in a lot of trouble. I think it's wiser to concentrate on singing like a prima donna than on acting like...
...last appearing in the kind of role she is not accustomed to singing: tragic heroine. It's not a part that suits her. She would do far better to rediscover the wholesome, appealing qualities that made her a star in the first place and leave the prima donna business to someone else...