Word: voigt
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...know that it's not over till the fat lady sings, and this book wouldn't be complete without the chapter titled "Clean Plate Club." Hoelterhoff throws political correctness to the wind in her descriptions of the "Three Tonners": Debora Voigt, Sharon Sweet and Jane Eaglen. In her merciless critique, she explains the difficulties of having hugely overweight leads playing believable romantic roles. In one version of La Boheme, with Jane Eaglan as Mimi, the Met had to build a bed that sunk with her weight to help some of the extra bulk. Hoelterhoff fills the chapter out with...
...scarfing down pasta, are outrageously unreliable. The imperious troublemaker Kathleen Battle, feeling chilly in a limo in Los Angeles, is said to have telephoned her manager in New York City and ordered him to call her driver to ask him to turn down the air conditioning. A nervous Deborah Voigt, waiting backstage for her entrance, absentmindedly ate a prop chicken. Opera buffs will munch happily too on these nuggets...
...just finished my generals in the English department, and there was enough concern there about a canon of great works that I think finding a canon of Great Books for the entire school would be very difficult," says Susannah J. Voigt...
...Uggh. That might be a good idea, but it wouldn't have been something I would have enjoyed," says Susannah J. Voigt '97, an English concentrator...
...other nominees for the award are: Lynda Hull's "The Only World," William Matthew's "Time and Money," James Merrill's "A Scattering of Salts," and "Kyrie" by Ellen Bryant Voigt...