Word: teresa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Titian's Danae and the male craftiness of his Pope Paul III in last week's show confirmed the emperor's judgment. Philip IV, Habsburg King of Spain, had patronized Diego Velasquez, whose pictures of the king's little daughter, the stiffly costumed Infanta Margareta Teresa, were among the most brilliant and humanly pathetic portraits ever painted...
...citizens who paid up, got back 28 receipts with checks to cover the same amounts. In Dallas, Internal Revenue officials received an unsigned letter enclosing $105 and a Bible reference: "Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due . . ." (Romans 13:7) In Bari, Italy, Widow Teresa Porcaro looked at her tax bill, forthwith died of a heart attack...
...getting a chance to open up as Aida. He had picked three newcomers: slim Norwegian Contralto Eva Gustavson (Amneris), who arrived in the U.S. last October, young Canadian Bass-Baritone Dennis Harbour (the King of Egypt), who a fortnight ago won the Met's radio auditions, and Soprano Teresa Randall (the Priestess), a finalist in the same contest. Baritone Giuseppe Valdengo (Amonasro), big Bass Norman Scott (Ramfis), Tenor Virginio Assandri (the Messenger), were all Toscanini veterans. NBC was doing its part in the old top-network tradition-spending an estimated $70,000 of its own money...
Inside & Outside. When it came to explaining his new works, the everyday English language could take Irishman Middleton just so far. Teresa, for example (see cut), was "an attempt to portray in paint the personification of the Carrick Hill area-one of the poorer Catholic districts in Belfast. An attempt to feel my way into a particular aspect of Catholic mysticism, essentially Irish." It was an attempt, said he, to show "the ecstatic otherness of relinquishing all because one has nothing at all to relinquish...
...greatest love story ever filmed" is the modest encomium reserved by MGM for its latest romantic outburst. David Niven and Teresa Wright are the protagonists in this cosmic match, and they are backed up by a talking house, a war, and 60-odd years worth of flashbacks...