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...noblewoman, Donna Anna, he duels with her father, the Commendatore, and kills him. Then, while the Don busies himself mostly with trying to seduce the peasant girl Zerlina, Donna Anna joins forces with her fiancé Don Ottavio and another of the Don's conquests, Donna Elvira, to hound him through a series of comic entanglements, disguises and escapes. When a statue of the slain Commendatore comes to life and challenges the Don, he defiantly invites the statue to supper. Threatened with damnation, he remains unrepentant and true to his nature, thus taking on a perverse grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Only the Mozart Is Missing | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, a leading foe of forced busing who lost her school board seat in the last election, appeared to have regained her slot, piling up more than 50,000 votes...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Mayor White Wins 4th Term, Trounces Timilty Across City | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

Three Women. At Harvard Square, Thrusday at 12:30, 4:10 and 7:55. With Elvira Madigan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...hacks and demagogues have survived the election; Councilors Albert "Dapper" O'Neil and Frederick C. Langone did retain their seats. But the three losers, Councilors Louise Day Hicks and John Kerrigan and School Committee member Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, each represented a special facet of Boston's malevolent underside. Whether Hicks and Palladino gain the hundred odd votes they need to win in a recount remains irrelevant because, compared to previous elections, this year's results are a clear repudiation of the trinity that stood for patronage and prejudice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chickens Come Home to Roost | 11/11/1977 | See Source »

...losing incumbent Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, had first won a seat in 1975 after newspapers printed a picture of her punching Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 at an anti-busing rally...

Author: By Andrew P. Buchsbaum, | Title: Downpour Soaks City Elections | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

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