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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week Bloomingdale's in Manhattan celebrated with a wall of windows full of well-cut, preppie-style separates, many emblazoned with the Hilfiger logo or a giant H--and that's not for Harvard. The store held an autograph party, as if the designer were Michael Jordan or Luciano Pavarotti. Lean, perky, with his trademark jack-o'-lantern grin in place, Hilfiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: H STANDS FOR HILFIGER | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...keynote speaker--nonincendiary-- Brought twice as many kids as Molinari. Yes, Evan Bayh had babies in his coterie, But came off as a Democrat from Rotary. Though Jesse Jackson got to speak a lot, he And Mario, the party's Pavarotti, Got nonprime slots to call out all their tropes-- Competing with not Seinfeld but the soaps. Supporters now of Clinton, both declined To bash him for the welfare bill he signed. Then Hillary held forth with great aplomb: Apparently she's mainly Chelsea's mom. Her husband values every child he meets, Including those the bill puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE BIG FAMILY, STUPID | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

What the opera world needs most right now is a new Wagnerian soprano or a hefty heldentenor, but that is not what the fans are looking for. What they fret about is, Where is the next Pavarotti going to come from? Who will replace Domingo? These two supersingers have raised tenor worship to extraordinary levels, and even they admit that they can't go on forever. There are many claimants for the rich prize of tenor dominance, but the one taken most seriously is a young French-born Sicilian named Roberto Alagna. He is 32, handsome, slender and blessed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERA: SO HAPPY TOGETHER | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...Alagna is not about to settle for just Pavarotti's mantle. This media dream child comes complete with his own legend. Try this one. Nineteen months ago, when he was beginning to make breaker-size ripples in the international opera pool, his wife died of a brain tumor, leaving him with their toddler Ornella. Then last year in London he fell in love with a beautiful Romanian soprano, Angela Gheorghiu, 30, who was making headlines at Covent Garden as Violetta in Sir Georg Solti's production of La Traviata. The pair have been together ever since, as inseparable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERA: SO HAPPY TOGETHER | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

Only last October, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI declared himself "incredibly monogamous," and Adua, his wife of 35 years, concurred. But in Barbados, the Italian weekly Chi snapped Big Luciano--as he's known back home--and his secretary NICOLETTA MANTOVANI Making a certain sort of music together. Chi reports that the tenor has finally proclaimed his love for his 26-year-old aide. "Nicoletta and I are very happy, as you can see. To hide it or to deny it would be a crime," he said. "She is my favorite of my harem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 4, 1996 | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

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