diva

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The pop diva attracted more than 144,000 visitors, almost half of them foreigners.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

The stress of the holidays can turn any one of us into a bit of a diva.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

That’s as fantastical of a demand as Sidney Lumet’s 1978 “The Wiz” insisting that the great diva Diana Ross’s Dorothy was a nervous nelly who’d never been south of Harlem’s 125th Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

This technological fossil produced rich portraits of the “Bugonia” characters for the big screen, but behaved like a diva behind the scenes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Most performers did pay, even the most famous diva of the time, Adelina Patti.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson