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...Cranmer puts it in the final segment: "There has been a great harvesting of queens in our time." While all of the actresses portraying Henry's sundry wives are extraordinarily good, there are two standouts in the series. Annette Crosbie as Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, is perhaps the finest. As the young Spanish princess, she is appropriately shy and frightened; she ages gently into the grand old Queen, beloved of her subjects and even in his deepening hysteria for a son, by her husband and King. Finally, we see her as a sick and aged...
...George Aragon, a student in the Business School's doctoral program, pointed out that UMAS is one of several organizations that recruit Chicanos to East Coast schools...
Mexican-American students attended a conference at Yale last May and formed a National Alliance of Chicano Students representing more than 15 schools and 100 students. "To build this organization," Aragon said, "will be one of the main objectives of Chicano students this year...
...mirrored chandelier whirls, the trio blares Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, and the master of ceremonies booms, "Yow-sah, yowsah, yowsah." The place is the Aragon Ballroom in Los Angeles, the time is the Depression, and the event is an extravagance of sadomasochism known as the Marathon Dance...
...book can be intriguing: the 800 mistresses of Niccolo d'Este, the Marquis of Ferrara (one cannot help wondering who counted them); the 2,000 oxen and 80,000 fowl reportedly consumed at the two-week wedding feast for Niccolo's son Leonello and Maria of Aragon; the 200 souls trampled to death in a traffic jam on Rome's Sant' Angelo bridge during the 1450 jubilee celebration...