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...will departments face absolutely uniform standards. Auditors, University officials say, vary in their demands. "If the records are there, it's a subjective judgement. But if they're not there it's a prima facle evidence for a disallowance of the contract," Carl W. Janke, the University Comptroller, said last week...
...concert version of Roberto Devereux, a recently resurrected Donizetti opera that is absurdly complex in its amorous entanglements but brimming with singable music. Her extended, melting pianissimos lingered in the air like wisps of smoke. At the end of the second act, she showed the stuff great prima donnas are made of, held the final high note beyond everyone else on the stage and, with an arrogant toss of her head, strode off still singing full throttle. Her warm, artfully shaded voice is not as large as Birgit Nilsson's, nor does she favor the bel canto filigrees...
...matter how prolific he is, Antes is slow to release his paintings. Even when finished, he keeps them for six months, until finally he can turn to a spectator and pronounce "Ist ja prima, nicht?" (First class, no?). Any really serious doubts that Antes' prodigious pace might be slackening were completely dispelled by his current exhibition at Munich's Stangl Gallery. To the delight of his growing following, Antes gave some of his imps a third dimension, produced a merry lot of polychromed bronzes and ceramics-as well as paintings and drawings. "I never waste an idea...
...much that his expertise ranges from costume epics to light comedy; it is that under his guidance no fewer than a dozen stars have won Oscars for themselves.* Not that working under Willie Wyler is easy. "I try to establish a rule," he says, "that there is only one prima donna on the set, and that...
...Amara as Liu. Despite excellent notices, Bing still held her back: "You have plenty of time." She retorted: "I want to sing while I am young," and took off for Europe. She sang at Covent Garden, the Bolshoi, La Scala. In Moscow, she showed the first syndrome of a prima donna: she walked out after the second act of Eugene Onegin, declaring that "the applause was scanty." At a recital a few days later, chastened Muscovites bravoed her back for five encores...