Word: queene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hair-raising. Callas entered Baron Scarpia's den looking like the Queen of the Night in her black velvet and ermine gown and glittering tiara. Her lip curled shrewishly at Scarpia's overtures, but she staggered when she heard her lover's tortured screams. She wound up her big show-stopping aria, Vissi d'Arte, on her knees just in time to receive the ovation that greeted it. Meanwhile, Mitropoulos, silhouetted against the stage lights, was kneading, soothing, irritating, roiling his orchestra, bouncing around in the climaxes like a marionette on a string. With a start...
...Paris she met her husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent Garden. She went on (as the Queen of Shema-khan) despite the tragedy, now thinks "singing helped...
...objects, early archaeologists burrowed recklessly into ancient ruins. Often they missed or destroyed the subtle hints and clues that tell modern diggers how ancient people lived. Professor Carl W. Blegen of the University of Cincinnati now tells how careful, new-style digging uncovered the apartment of a Greek queen of the Homeric Age, more than 3,000 years...
...Queen's Boudoir. For five seasons Dr. Blegen's group has been working at a site near Pylos in southern Greece, where the ruins of a Mycenaean palace cover the top of a hill. Most famous inhabitant of Pylos was King Nestor of the Iliad, and it is probable that the palace once belonged to him and his Queen. Eurydice. The building, which had two floors, was burned to the ground after Nestor's death, but the blacked ruins can still tell much about the people who lived there...
...Queen Eurydice had a spacious reception hall with a circular fireplace in the center. Her boudoir had frescoed walls, and its stucco floor was gaily decorated with dolphins and octopuses. Like other parts of Nestor's palace, the Queen's apartments had terra-cotta pipes to carry off the smoke of the heating system. A small room, presumably a bathroom, had an underground drain. There was no bathtub, but since a terra-cotta tub was found in another part of the palace, Queen Eurydice may have had one too. Or perhaps her slave girls bathed her by pouring...