Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embedded vein of indifference. The first hint came when he announced auditions for the chorus of the new Dallas Civic Opera; instead of the expected stampede, only 32 singers showed up, and most of them were shower-room Carusos. The real blow, though, was his fund-raising gala, featuring Maria Callas. It sold only 30% of the 4,100 seats in the State Fair Music Hall. On the following night, the company opened with an excellent performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri-and got much the same box office results. Kelly was dumfounded. "The response...
...Mother never cooked anything that wasn't in a can or a container, and all she had to do was warm it up," says exurban New York Matron Maria Cunningham, 31. Not Maria. Veal, lamb and chicken are her favorites, and she and her husband like Julia's recipes for saute de veau Marengo, gigot de pre-sale roti a la moutarde, and supreme de volatile aux champignons, which they served recently at a dinner for 22. Says Maria: "The only thing that made it possible is that Julia tells all the things you can do in advance...
...lure of TV and films, the net weight of the singers has dropped a ton or two since the early 1900s. Still, most of them are not exactly skinny. Singing opera is extremely demanding physically; and generally, the heartier the singer, the heartier the singing. Some fans of Maria Callas contend that she sang much better 13 years ago, when she was a puffy 215 and ate whole roast chickens between acts, than she did after she slimmed down to a svelte...
...Greek Queen went mad in her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, this Sicilian widow near New Orleans goes mad in her passion for the memory of her dead truck-driver husband. When a young sailor lights the fires of love in the eyes of her 15-year-old daughter (Maria Tucci), the widow turns fiercely moralistic. Then the image of her late husband appears, another truck driver (Harry Guardino) with an identical rose tattoo on his chest, and she abandons herself to the power of Eros...
...themselves are not expecting a royal comeback. Otto was exiled at the age of six. In the early years, his proud and persistent mother, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, tried every scheme to regain Habsburg honors for her son, even plotted unsuccessfully in the 1930s to marry him to Princess Maria of Italy in the hope that // Duce would present him with the Austrian throne. Of late, Otto has pledged loyalty to the republic. But after he won a battle in Austria's highest court last June, allowing him to travel in Austria, Socialist pickets rallied in the streets, warning...