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...“At that point, you get the critics and poets cementing this idea of the diva as an exceptional opera star, a prima donna,” says Bailey....
...ecclesiastical Baroque gossip which, despite never having been proven entirely factual, has equally never been entirely dismissed as false — this was also the love nest of Innocent and his purported mistress, Donna...
...Trophies piled up, and the footballers became vain prima donnas (while always remaining under their agents’ thumbs, noted Macri)....
...When the torch will be finally passed is a perennial question; Pope Benedict’s resignation just brought it to the fore once again (when you are waiting for shows to start, everything seems to come back to...
...Suddenly the voice – from teasingly conversational to clangorously epic to tenderly lyric – is right beside you even when it’s a talking beast: “The Pope pops Satan, Satan pips the Pope,”/ Plutus barked...
...After eight years of debate, Pope John Paul II asked the nuns to move into a building a mile away....
...The “Pope’s Villa” is a stiffer, darker and more classical work. It will have to obtain an export licence if it goes to a foreign buyer....
...They should have been idiosyncratic one-hit wonders, like Vanilla Ice, or Toni Basil, or Althea & Donna. But it was a strange time....
...In his treatise Monarchia he mounted a defence of the Holy Roman Emperor’s temporal authority against the claims of the Pope....
..."There were no prima donnas, no dissenting voices," Mr Prodi says. "We followed the mainstream and we worked together."...
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