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...things straight. Sometimes I wished the voice were like a violin, an instrument in a box -- and you could put the box in a closet." But the period of questioning is over. Time now to celebrate all those sad, mad girls in productions that just might suit. As the prima donna promises, "I'm just starting my prime...
Bernays, who teaches at the Harvard Extension School, is also deft and amusing in exposing the inside world of academe--the mundane faculty meetings, prima donna behavior and mucked-up administration that is so much a part of what goes on around here...
TELEVISION ACQUAINTANCE. Backstage squabbling at the Bolshoi: intrepid Estonian journalist Urmas Ott gets to the bottom of it during a revealing 90- minute interview with prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya...
...Paris, for other Italian designers (like Simonetta), turned into a nightmare that left them disenfranchised, with no singular creative identity. "I shouldn't yet take all this for more than a one-season wonder," said Suzy Menkes, the savvy fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune. "All designers are prima donnas to some extent, and I expect Gigli just wanted to teach the Milanese organizers a lesson...
...Raisa Gorbachev becoming the prima donna of perestroika? In rare coverage of the Soviet leader's wife, TASS quoted her last week as she spoke out on her husband's reforms and the role of women in world peace at a Moscow reception honoring International Women's Day. "Soviet people are putting into practice plans of revolutionary restructuring," the Soviet First Lady said. "We want our public life . . . to be worthy of a human being...