When she moved to New York in the late '70s, unsure about how to create a presence for herself as an artist, she started writing essays for art magazines.
As Marie, Donizetti's daughter of the regiment, she was a winning, earthy presence, throwing herself gamely into the dauntingly physical production.
Buckingham Palace said the 81-year-old queen, who became Britain's oldest ever monarch last week after more than a century on the throne, was hoping to reach a wider, and younger, audience by creating a permanent presence for herself on the the popular video-sharing network, owned by Google.
Then, creeping toward it with an infinite and exacting patience, she lowered her head and, before the beast had even fully registered her presence, flung herself at it.
The presence of Guggenheim herself pervades the house.
Schumer is an engaging and impressively confident presence who surrounds herself with an equally talented cast.
Lowry, a spry, witty presence who called herself an outsider, acknowledged there were controversial episodes in the book, such as the moment when a man kills his child.
It was strange: in Paola's presence she felt herself to be a failure, yet a part of her believed that a woman of 34 with no husband or children was the greatest failure of all.
He is impressed to see her wake up, register his presence and make herself go limp, despite her reflexive urge to do anything but; she, after all, is almost as tough a customer as he is.
