Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being so -- well, so demanding? For starters, she is the newest diva on the international music scene. Her coronation came last fall with her Metropolitan Opera debut as Gilda in Rigoletto, the season's major event. "Ah, she is beautiful!" croons Pavarotti, her co-star. "So tall! And she has beautiful musicality, beautiful voice, beautiful phrasing." Leonard Bernstein, who chose Anderson for the new recording of his operetta Candide, likens her to Jennie Tourel, among others, in "the sense of vocal color, of the dramatic use of technique and the endless drive to work hard...
...usual in the artistic world, today's new phenom is yesterday's hardworking apprentice. Anderson grew up in Wallingford, Conn., taking voice and dance lessons. She grew too tall to dance (today she stands 5 ft. 10 in.), but at 17 she was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions. She hated the process. "I'm determined, but I can't step on someone else to get ahead. I hated the competitiveness." Instead she went to Yale and majored in French literature, graduating in 1974. She gave herself two years to become famous and has been working at it ever...
...opportunity. For three years Mandela has held periodic meetings with a team of government officials, and since November he has had sessions with Cabinet ministers as well as almost daily talks with anti-apartheid leaders to try to find a common meeting ground. The 71-year-old prisoner, still tall and distinguished looking, his smooth face barely lined, his black hair just flecked with gray, greets each visitor with a smiling embrace...
...Wedgwood-blue rug with the eagle in the center for his office floor, blue drapes for the tall windows and covering for six chairs in the same color...
Prince began work on the 10-foot-tall piece after Thanksgiving and finished in January. The sculpture is now being held in storage at the Carpenter Center, he said...