Word: emilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Three Soviet women in a row lost their grip and crashed to the mats while competing on the uneven bars. From then on, they played it conservatively, eliminating some of the more difficult tricks in the floor exercises in hopes of staying on their feet. The Rumanians charged ahead. Emilia Eberle, 15, heiress-apparent to Nadia's throne, reeled off a dazzling floor exercise; Melita Ruhn whistled through a difficult and risky performance on the uneven parallel bars. When the totals were in, the Rumanians had edged out the Soviets by .625 points. It was only the second time...
Deciding that "teaching was too hard on my vocal cords," he took a job selling insurance, then set about painstakingly acquiring a vocal technique from teachers in the area. At 25, having won a vocal competition in nearby Reggio Emilia, he was awarded an engagement in a local production of La Bohème. Within the span of three weeks, he married Adua and sang his first Rodolfo. His debut led to other bookings in Italy and, eventually, at minor houses all over Europe. La Scala offered him a job as a house stand-by for all its tenor roles...
...prayer is for so many people who have died, beginning with my parents, my brother and my sister, whom I never knew because she died before I was born." Papal aides later explained that the girl, born three years before the Pope, lived only one day. His mother Emilia died years after that while giving birth to a second daughter, who was stillborn...
...have always had a great affection for this city," he joked. "But I love it even more so now." After the 3½-hour concert, the Andalusian-born Segovia, 85, signed autographs with the help of his son Carlos Andrés, 8. Then, accompanied by his third wife Emilia, 38, Segovia flung a Spanish cape around his shoulders and bid the crowd...
...loathes welfare statism than the century of the other Elizabeth? After decades of living in its atmosphere, Rowse tends to treat the Bard as an intimate. Others may puzzle over the identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Rowse is sure that she is Emilia Bassano Lanier, the half-Venetian wife of a court musician and "a bad lot." As for those who find evidence of homosexuality in the canon, Rowse dismisses them as "silly buggers. The idiots can't see that Christopher Marlowe was a roaring homo, and Francis Bacon was a homo, but that Shakespeare...