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...curved surfaces of the ceiling and spandrels, he used cartoons, full-size drawings whose outlines were transferred to the plaster. But the lunettes, or flat semicircular panels, around the top of the Sistine's windows, show no sign of these preliminaries. They were imagined on the spot, alla prima...
Nancy Reagan has quite deliberately altered the way she looks at Ronald Reagan in public. Her worshipful staring during his speeches had for years been regarded as prima-facie evidence of a Goody Two-Shoes phoniness. She claims that it was not a theatrical device, just her natural way of watching anyone speak. But the gaze is gone. "I am trying not to do it as much as I have done it in the past," she explains, "only because there was so much talk about it and it was kind of ridiculed." Campaigning last year seemed to convince her that...
...black artist to sing a major role in the house since Marian Anderson broke the color line six years earlier. In such dramatic soprano roles as Tosca, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's other Leonora, in La Forza del Destino, Price established herself as a prima donna assoluta, and in her greatest roles--Aida and the two Leonoras--there was no one better...
SEPARATED. Marie Osmond, 25, wholesome prima donna of the devoutly Mormon Osmond family; and her husband of 2½ years, Stephen L. Craig, 27, a former Brigham Young University Basketball Player; in Los Angeles. The couple have a 19-month-old son, who has returned to Orem, Utah, with his mother...
Schygulla, though, is a prima donna of passion. She learned her trade making 18 movies and TV films with the bold, relentless Wunderkind of German cinema, R.W. Fassbinder (Effi Briest, The Marriage...