Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject of all the buzz, he kept out of sight for 48 hours, then turned up in Rome with his wife-to-be. She is Giovanna Carlevaro, an attractive woman of 38, whom he met at a friend's house last November. They will be married "soon," said Musante, but the exact time and place is secret. What his new occupation will be, Musante does not yet. know. "In case of need, I would not hesitate at manual labor...
Married. Paul McCartney, 26, last of the bachelor Beatles; and Linda Eastman, 27, honey-blonde American photographer and sister of Beatles Lawyer John Eastman, who met Paul at a news conference in Manhattan ten months ago; she for the second time; in a civil ceremony in London, enlivened somewhat by a covey of wounded birds wailing their anguish from behind a police cordon...
Last week, in the temperamental tradition of opera's prima donnas, Miss Nilsson did indeed walk out on the Met. She not only refused to sing as Brünnhilde in the 1970 premiere of the new Von Karajan production of Götterdämmerung, but also canceled her scheduled performances next season in Ariadne auf Naxos. Her reason: the Met was letting that nasty Von Karajan whittle down the number of her performances in order to introduce a younger Viennese protegee, Soprano Helga Dernesch, to New York audiences. "When the birds are not happy," throbbed Miss Nilsson...
Following a different libretto, the ordinarily affable Nilsson charged that the Met had in fact unilaterally cut her Wagner schedule nearly in half, added vocally taxing side-by-side performances of Aida and Götterdämmerung, and rudely notified her of the changes by a brusque note left by a porter at her hotel room. What miffed her even more was the fact that the Met had added three more Italian roles-she wanted to devote her voice to the Ring-and even carelessly scheduled one performance on the very day she was flying in from Europe. True...
Three hundred first-year law students met in Austin Hall yesterday afternoon to air grievances and begin circulation of a petition demanding reform of the school's grading system...