Word: heard
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...greatest practical contribution to opera, though, as Sills noted when she heard of Callas' death, lay in "erasing the image that all opera singers are fat with horns growing out of their heads." Callas had no horns-except in the eyes of rival singers and every impresario who happened to cross her. But if the world remembers her as tigerish and svelte, it was only because she dieted away 70 Ibs. fairly early in her career-losing with them, perhaps, some of the richness of her voice. Shortly after World War II, when she was on the verge...
Maria Callas died last week at 53 of a heart attack in Paris. She had been living privately and comfortably in retirement. Not since 1965 had she appeared on an opera stage, nor had she given a recital since 1974. But 16th arrondissement neighbors often heard her in her apartment, singing arias to herself...
Blackley concedes that a few scoundrels eager to cloak their financial transactions from prying eyes may be among his customers, but he insists that most buyers are reputable people. So far, Blackley says, he has not heard of a single case where anyone has refused to cash a red check. Adds Blackley: "It's not devious; it's just red paper. It's for privacy...
...reproductive freedom." Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, a former Texas legislator who is now president of Wells College in New York, accused President Carter of "ringing pietism" for his stand on public aid for abortion, and sarcastically attacked the recent Supreme Court ruling. Said she: "Every case the Supremes have heard of late has resulted in constitutional disaster." Among the resolutions approved by the caucus was one calling on feminist supporters to avoid tourism in the 15 states that have not yet passed ERA, and to boycott products made in those states. The meeting was remarkably free of divisiveness. One reason...
...feeling insecure. "I was living alone on the West Side, in a one-room apartment with the bathroom out in the hallway and the bathtub in the kitchen, right? I didn't feel like I had arrived with Hair. That play wasn't much for individual performances." When she heard about tryouts for Play It Again, Sam, she invited herself...