Word: marias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference din in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Brigitte Bardot, 31, stuck out her chin and quite a bit of the rest of her, and allowed that she just "adored" the title. In the U.S. for the first time to heat up publicity for her new movie, Viva Maria, B.B. put on her sexy behavior and a bra for the occasion. "Will you ever marry again?" a questioner hollered, and Brigitte explained, "I think better without husbands." When one catty correspondent asked the kitten: "Do you feel it necessary to become a mother to be really fulfilled?" Brigitte, whose...
...with an arrogant toss of her head, strode off still singing full throttle. Her warm, artfully shaded voice is not as large as Birgit Nilsson's, nor does she favor the bel canto filigrees of Joan Sutherland. Instead she infuses a role with an earthy energy reminiscent of Maria Callas, a quality which, above all else, excites...
...horizon of Charlotte's new life for more than a year. During the summer of 1964, he sailed into Villefranche aboard his three-masted schooner, Creole, which is the world's largest yacht. Only a couple of waves away was the Fords' yacht Santa Maria. Soon Niarchos' launch was running a veritable shuttle between the two yachts...
...this activity was powerless, however, to put interest into Brahms Ave Maria for women's chorus and orchestra. Like the Siefried Idyll, it is pretty and pleasant, but dull. More than most composers, Brahms wrote music that varied from the great to the mediocre, and this piece is not one of his best. The performance was up to the music, competent, but a bit yawn-inducing...
...Jose Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) presents a claim to fame that is also a patent of obscurity. He is the major novelist of a minor language: Portuguese. A scrawny chap with big buck teeth and a hook nose, Eça de Queiroz (pronounced Essa de Kay-rozh) spent most of his life as a Portuguese consul in London and Paris, fell under the spell of Flaubert and Zola, wrote a stack of realistic novels that appalled the provincial Portuguese and impressed some literate Parisians but missed fire in America. In 1962, however, a translation...