Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to share a story with you. A girl of ten approached me recently and handed me a bunch of flowers. I asked her, "What do you want to do when you are an adult?" She said, "I want to be a cosmonaut." That is how our children are. The Vietnamese children have great prospects before them. They will certainly do better than what we have done. And when they are adults, they will have better relations with American children than we have had. (Laughs heartily...
Last summer the girl from Portsmouth, Ohio, sang for the Pope in Rome. It was a performance of Mozart's "Coronation" Mass conducted by Herbert von Karajan. "We were in the apse of St. Peter's," she recalls. "The altar is off to our right and a little in front of us. After everyone is in place, the procession begins, and John Paul II is at the end, in full vestments. It's hard to speak of it as a musical occasion. It was a moment in life that one treasures. Oh, it was great to be there...
Indeed they do. Whether she sports Despina's serving-girl mufti in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, is decked out in the rococo raiment of Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, or sweeps glamorously onto a concert stage dressed in one of her custom-made Rouben Ter-Arutunian gowns, it is impossible to imagine Battle's ever taking a letter or raising a ruler again. She is an ethereal Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, a sparkling Zerbinetta in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a beguiling Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which she will sing...
...Queen, as ever, was placid perfection. For Charles, the role of bachelor Prince was becoming old hat; the public grew tired of a succession of Charlie's Angels but never a bride. Then, like an inspired casting director, Charles picked an unlikely ingenue for the role of Princess: the girl next door. Voila! She became the biggest star of all and made "The Windsors" the most watched show of all time...
Approximately 1 percent of Penn students read comic books, said Gold. He said that comics are popular because "good always wins over evil, and no one gets the girl...