Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arias is particularly affecting. While most of the composers (Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev) are familiar, the excerpts are less so. Among the most intriguing is from Not Love Alone, an opera about the love life on a collective farm by Rodion Shchedrin. The youngest composer represented on the album (and husband of Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya), Shchedrin finds room for originality within conventional Soviet Realism-which means late, late, late Romanticism. However superficial, his melodies are refreshingly singable. Mezzo-Soprano Arkhipova renders all with intelligence and virtuosity...
...picture! Wherever did you get hold of that? It has split the family: my husband likes it and I am seriously considering a suit for pictorial slander...
Lady Bird Johnson, who stood by in the hospital during her daughter's six hours' labor and delivery, immediately telephoned the news to her husband at the White House and was joshed about "being a grandma." Hearing about his son-in-law's elephant joke, Grandpa Johnson wired Luci: "I am happy for you and Patrick Sr., and Patrick Lyndon. Our best Hereford heifer is being curried for delivery, consigned to your 9-lb. son, who incidentally I know doesn't look like a donkey, and I hope that his father will quit publicizing...
...Yves St. Laurent and a personal barber (Kenneth) could placate the picadors from the drama desk, who saw only a "lovely looking amateur, an enthusiastic beginner" who "laid a golden egg." Leading Lady Bouvier compared opening night to having a baby ("You wanted to have it over with"), but Husband Stanislas Radziwill refused to accept fatherhood. "I'm going back to London," he said with a shrug. "She can do what she wants...
With the meticulousness of a ghoul in a catacomb, he establishes his heroine Rosemary as a lapsed Catholic. Her story begins when she and her ambitious actor-husband, Guy, take up residence in the Bramford, a prestigious and fabled apartment house on the West Side of Manhattan-a place obviously modeled after the proud, gloomy old Dakota, on Central Park West. One of the fables of the Bramford concerns the prevalence of witches there...