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Every opera fan knows how high Tosca bounced, when the next swan left and what Maria Callas thought of Renata Tebaldi; disasters, bons mots and bitchy remarks seem integral to the art. Ethan Mordden, who knows his way around backstage (Demented: The World of the Opera Diva; The Splendid Art of Opera), has gleefully amassed hundreds of such anecdotes, exchanges and choice bits of opera lore, along with some less celebrated stories. "Yet there is history here," he says, "for if many of the tales are silly, many others are telling...
...more than 2.6 million votes, about 46% of the total. Soares, by comparison, collected only 25%, 1.44 million votes. But the first round was not an even fight. While Freitas do Amaral was the only right-wing candidate, the leftist vote was split three ways. In addition to Soares, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, who served as Prime Minister for five months in 1979, and Francisco Salgado Zenha, a former Socialist Party member, were also running...
...Marathon Winner Carlos Lopes. Soares also emphasized his political experience and his achievements, including the country's entry into the E.C. Ultimately, Soares won back support from Socialists who had defected from Salgado Zenha after he won Communist backing. Salgado Zenha ended up with 20.9% of the vote and Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo got just...
...five years Maria Unzueta's sole source of income was a monthly welfare check. Separated from her husband, the San Diego mother of four made do on benefits totaling $7,920 a year. But now Unzueta, 39, is part of a local job- training program for welfare recipients in which she works 40 hours a week as a hospital file clerk and makes roughly the same amount of money she was getting on the dole. Under the workfare program, she still receives child- care benefits worth about $130 a month, but she hopes to be completely self- sufficient soon...
...take Maria. Maria is smart, clever, volatile, funny, mischievous, a real piece of work. She would have us believe that she does not realize that she loves her father in spite of his awful behavior, but she does realize that. She does not need to be taught to love him, so in that she is playing a sort of game by pretending her love is a secret we all must disclose. But Maria does need to learn to live at peace with the world, because in temperament she is very much like her father. That's her real problem...