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Dame Margot Fonteyn is indisputably a prima ballerina assoluta. The Stuttgart Ballet now ranks among Europe's best dance companies. Its director and chief choreographer, John Cranko, is possibly the reigning master of story ballet. Put them all together and what do you get? What you get, sad to say, is a campy, overripe, overdecorated disaster called Poème de I'Extase, which was given its American première last week at the Metropolitan Opera House...
Since plans for a separate biochemistry building were scrapped, discussions of alternatives for the Science Center often mention the possibility of moving the entire biochemistry department in. Williams thinks this influx of the "prima donnas of research" would lead to a tendency to occupy all available space and would destroy the intended emphasis on interdisciplinary undergraduate science. Even Jack Strominger, Professor of Biochemistry and chairman of the Biochemistry department, doesn't particularly want his department to move bodily into the Center. The department just "needs a home," he explains...
Violette Verdy, L.H.D., prima ballerina, New York City Ballet...
...sweet music of thunderous applause fell upon the pink ears of Prima Donna Joan Sutherland after her premiere performance of Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg last week. But oh! Boos followed for the weak conducting of her husband Richard Bonynge in the orchestra pit. Shaking her fist in fury, Miss Sutherland stomped onto the stage and stormed off again -refusing further curtain calls. Next day the Hamburg papers carried jittery editorials, worrying about whether Sutherland & Co. would pack up and go. No problem. Soon she was down at the Hamburg docks, her fist clenched now around a champagne bottle, with...
...story, going all the way back to Tom Molineaux, the prima inter pares of the American slave gladiators, who became the country's first heavyweight champion. Born on a Virginia plantation, Molineaux fought against the prime "black bucks" from other plantations while the masters wagered high stakes on the outcome. After he had beaten all comers and therefore was no longer of use to his master, Molineaux was given his freedom. He moved to New York and became the premier boxer on the Waterfront. Exhausting American competition, Molineaux then went to England to take on the English champion, Tom Cribb...