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...famous boxing exhibition between a tubercular Valentino and a reporter from a New York paper that had published a scathing criticism of the film idol. To wind up the movie with this inherently ludicrous vignette raises some doubts as to Russell's real attitude towards his subject. The prima donna in Valentino dominates the film from start to finish, letting through only brief glimpses of the man's more admirable traits. He deserved better. The man who should have been the object of our praise is reduced to the object of our bemused contempt...
...Donna Arzt, who chairs the group's International Human Rights Commission, last night said her division of the organization is focusing considerable energy on the Soviet Union's immigration laws and imprisonment of dissidents...
...Callas, the subject of such ire and much admiration? She was a woman for whom the term prima donna could have been invented. Tempestuous, unpredictable, charming, ruthless, overwhelmingly talented, capable of canceling a performance halfway through (as she did once in Rome) even with a King in the audience. In her long face a kind of gypsy coarseness struggled with and failed to dominate a classic beauty. She could act with her voice and sing with her body, like a great tragedienne. Especially in her later years, that voice could be edgy and even ugly. But that did not matter...
...taken the U.S. almost seven decades to formulate a treaty and to realize the immense injustice and disgrace inflicted upon the Panamanians [Aug. 22]. If Americans can put behind them historic mistakes such as slavery and Nixon, why not the same with the Panama Canal? Donna Leusner Camden...
...borough for a time because "Queens girls are prettier." He did not walk casually away from the murder sites and slip into the dark. "I ran like hell." He revisited at least two of the scenes of his crimes and tried to find the grave of his first victim, Donna Lauria, 18, whom he had not known but for whom he seemed to develop a posthumous affection...