Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement that Beverly Sills "takes up where Maria Callas left off" cannot go unchallenged...
...theater groups. Two things made up his mind to try it professionally: the urging of his drama coach, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, and an incident that occurred when he was 27. "I stopped by a theater in New Haven," he recalls, "and I followed Roddy McDowall, Estelle Winwood and Maria Riva to lunch just to hear what they'd talk about. The conversation was absolutely banal, and here I thought they were all geniuses...
Eclectic Platform. Behind the scenes, Maria Eugenia runs her father's party, the Alianza National Popular, known simply as ANAPO. As majority leader of Bogota's city council, she is also de facto mayor of the capital...
Switch in Gender. If age, diabetes and a heart pulsed by a pacemaker keep Rojas Pinilla from running in 1974, Maria Eugenia would most certainly pick up the ANAPO banner. There is some question whether Colombians would vote for a woman; famous women in Latin America tend to be the mistresses of famous men. But a surprising number of Colombians, when asked about a woman President, told TIME'S David Lee: "Ah, but Maria Eugenia is muy macha"-a switch in gender of the word describing a virile...
...woman has certain advantages on the campaign trail. At every whistlestop, male candidates are expected to drink a mind-numbing local firewater known as aguardiente. To refuse is an insult, even though two or three shots are enough to end a politician's campaigning for the night. Maria Eugenia, by gently declining a drink, can squeeze in twice as many speeches as the average, reeling male...