Word: madalena
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...Eastman Kodak, gave Rochester a movie house. Better than that, he commissioned a brilliant young painter to create posters of the films on view. Alas, many of those celluloid epics have long since been turned into banjo picks, but the artwork survives in Movie Posters: The Paintings of Batiste Madalena (Abrams; 64 pages; $14.95). Here the famous and the forgotten are captured in the forceful style of art deco. Once upon a screen, these vamps, clowns and pirates romanced in a world of black and white. But outside the theater, Madalena made them leap from the walls in vibrant hues...
...beginning of Act Three, combining expressive phrasing and a smooth, full richness of tone that impressed even this Pavarotti fan. But he faded a bit in the other favorite, "La donna e mobile" (in this translation, "Woman's fidelity") and went slightly hoarse in the lilting, flirtatious duet with Madalena. Nevertheless, he brought a professional polish and pleasing musicality to the role immortalized by Luciano...
Many of the younger Portuguese, like Madalena Barboza, who came to Cambridge in 1961 when she was nine years old, flatly reject assimilation as a solution to ethnic identity problems. "We should de-emphasize the ideal of Americanization," Barboza says. "If I'm going to be called anything, I'd like to be called Portuguese, because I don't believe in giving up a nationality and taking on another one. There is no American heritage. I feel that I would be giving up something by becoming American...
...Madalena Barboza, now a senior at UMass-Boston, originally came to Cambridge with her family 13 years ago. At that time she was nine years old and did not speak English. "We spoke Portuguese at home and when I got here there was no bilingual program," Barboza recalls. "I was nine years old but I was put in first grade with six-year-olds because I couldn't speak the language. I caught up finally, but I'm still a year behind." One of her sisters quit school altogether...
...Died. Madalena Ponzillo, 61, mother of Opera Singers Rosa and Carmela Ponsellej of heart disease; in Meriden, Conn. Having refused to move into the mansion her successful daughters had built for her, she died in their little old home in Meriden's Italian quarter...
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