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After Judge Eidson made those rulings, a gunman wearing a black wig broke into the Davis mansion. He wounded Priscilla and a friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, and murdered her lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr, and her daughter by a previous marriage, twelve-year-old Andrea Wilborn. Four hours later, police arrested Davis at his girlfriend's home and charged him with being the gunman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Do You Want Next? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...customer wanted. For her to put out her hand, take a piece of paper, slice off a chunk of cheese and weigh it could take a quarter of an hour. If you asked her the cost, she began to mull it over and scratch under her wig with a hairpin. If the customer bought on credit and Zeldele marked down the amount, she couldn't make out later what she had written. When the war came and German marks ... came into use, she grew completely bewildered. Eli abused her in front of the customers and called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singer's Song of the Polish Past | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...World War II and regularly made the operatic grand tour during the 1950s. At New York's Metropolitan Opera he was popular as Scarpia in Tosca and as Don Giovanni. Despite his success, he complained that "this business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night" made for a less than ideal profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1977 | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...achieved with the chorus, rather than the customary piling up of decibels. The soloists were a uniformly excellent band of singers-though how they fared dramatically depended on the whim of Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, former Wunderkind of European opera. Ponnelle attired his Electra in a red fright wig and managed the considerable feat of making Soprano Carol Neblett look less than gorgeous. Electra may be a mixed-up lady; she does not have to be a visual horror. As Idamante, Mezzo Maria Ewing sang with enough splendor to suggest that the gods had blessed her early and often. Unhappily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Seria Side of Opera | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...Rasputin of fraud. The straggly hair that frames his craggy Florentine features is a fright wig of deceit. His flamingo legs carry him with awkward zest from sin to sin, while his tongue utters unguentary lies. Yet we are too conscious that he is a self-aware villain, scoring stunning acting points without carrying complete emotional conviction. And Stefan Gierasch's Orgon is not quite the ideal foil. He seems more like an exacerbated paterfamilias who wants Tartuffe to cow his recalcitrant brood rather than a breathless gull hopelessly infatuated by a bogus saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Snaky Spell | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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