Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opera at all? Because when Lucia is sung brilliantly, it is an unparalleled showpiece for great singing. New York has heard nearly every soprano of importance attempt Lucia -from Adelina Patti to Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland. Most of them have played the role as a fluttering, chirping simpleton. Callas made Lucia into a figure of high tragedy, but sang with disillusioning unevenness; Sutherland sang it sumptuously, but her acting was merely studious when it should have been spellbinding...
...necessary, by fainting. It was clearly feminine behavior, and Perrin dares to hint that behind every successful bowdlerizer there is a woman. Perrin's real scoop, however, is the suggestion that the real Bowdler probably was not Thomas at all, nor his wife, but his sister Henrietta Maria, known as Harriet...
...took one Italian housewife just a year to move from the kitchen to control of a successful leather-goods company. Now she's planning a recording session and thinking about her first movie-and who knows? Of course, Maria Scicolone Mussolini, 31-year-old mother of two, has a couple of uncommon advantages. Her husband is Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, Benito's son, and the familiar surname may have helped to make her shoes and handbags all the rage in Rome. In the same circular way, it may help sell records. The movie? Well, Maria is also Sophia...
...Lunar Receiving Lab's examination will continue until the rocks are released from quarantine this month, it has not yet answered any of the basic questions about the moon's origin. But if the moon is actually proved never to have had a molten interior (the maria melting could have been caused by meteor impacts), scientists would be hard put to sustain one of the theories of the moon's creation: that it was torn, cataclysmically, from a hot earth. On the other hand, a cold moon does not upset either of the two other major moon...
...more than a billion years younger than the planet itself, and the moon rocks from the Sea of Tranquillity are about the same age. Nonetheless, Urey and other cold-moon proponents think that when men reach the lunar highlands, which are generally considered to be older than the maria, they will find material as old as 4.5 billion years-or almost as old as the solar system itself...