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...Sepulce 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...
...there hope for the future? Yes, in the form of two guys in green grippers and fright wigs...I guess you had to be there...
...skaters will be making another prime-time TV appearance, this time on ESPN2. But the team won't have stage fright...
Back home at her apartment last week, Nasrin was virtually crippled by fright after discovering that TIME reporter Farid Hossain had slipped past the official security detail. She shouted, "If he could come in, any killer can walk in!" Two months of fugitive life, in a hideout Nasrin has refused to identify, had taken a toll. During her confinement to a single room, she lost not only weight but all awareness of events in the outside world after the telephone was removed. "It was like living in a jail cell," she said. "I felt as if I was dying every...
...didn't turn out that way. Cliburn was condemned by an adoring public to repeat again and again the concerto for which he won his prize, Tchaikovsky's First, and he never fully developed into a mature concert artist. In 1978, overwhelmed by expectations, crippled by stage fright and exhausted by his celebrity, he stopped performing and holed up in the Fort Worth, Texas, home he still shares with his mother and first teacher, Rildia Bee Cliburn, now 97. He re-emerged in 1987 for a few tantalizing concerto performances. Now, at 60, Cliburn has embarked on his first national...