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...those years, tawny, big-eyed Maria Callas established herself as undisputed queen of the world's opera. From London to Naples her presence in even the tiredest old operas packed the house. At Milan's La Scala she has, almost singlehanded, increased the season's attendance half again over prewar records. In critical Vienna, 10,000 people clamored for the 2,000 tickets available when she sang Lucia de Lammermoor. In Chicago her presence successfully launched a new opera company in a city which has been death on opera companies for years. Hundreds of ear-hardened operagoers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Prima Donna | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...annual meeting of the Associated Press Managing Editors in Chicago last week. U.S. sports editors made up a list of the ten tiredest cliches used in sports writing. The winners, in order: "mentor" (usually "cagy" or "genial"), "inked pact," "pay dirt," "circuit clout," "gonfalon," "roaring back or out or from behind." "outclassed but game" (with numerous variations), "clobber," "gridders" and "cage or cagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pay Dirt | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...notion that their production is superior to those of native managers. They believe that they can establish by the visit the supremacy of France across the orchestra and footlights. This they cannot do unless they call into consultation American musical comedy doctors. America has had the most and the tiredest business men for too many years not to have developed the funniest comedians, the loudest and fastest jazz and the most beautiful race of chorus girls that the world has ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Madame Sans G | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

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