Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LEFTY CARTOONIST Garry Trudesu has made heroes of few Republicans. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick, artfully portrayed as the aristocrat-legislator Lacey Davenport, is one of his exceptions. Adding welcome bursts of mature wit to the rambunctious world of "Doonesbury," Davenport pursues Washington no-good-niks with persistence and good taste. After vigorously lecturing a mobster friend of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan for making late-night death threats, she wonders aloud whether she has "hurt the poor man's feelings...
That baiter of British snobbery, George Bernard Shaw, once wrote, "An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable." Last week Prince Philip, that imperturbable aristocrat, was certainly uncomfortable. In the U.S. to inspect equestrian sites for the 1984 Olympics and to address the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about the International Wildlife Fund, he was invited to a soirée at the posh California Club. But the establishment, it transpired, prohibits women and has no black members. Philip's host, Mayor Thomas Bradley, refused to attend. Suddenly the club seemed rather too exclusive even...
...thought to be patrician, although her parents, a former magazine cover model and an Irish bricklayer grown wealthy as a contractor, certainly did not qualify as aristocrats in Philadelphia. Nor did Grace, the princess of an amusement park, ever qualify as a Main Line aristocrat there despite her popularity in the city. But she behaved like a lady, and thus in Holl wood she seemed not quite real, not quite an illusion. The picnic scene with Gary Grant from To Catch a Thief-worked because this flickering imbalance of perception carried over to the screen. It seemed deliciously shocking...
...poop to prow." There was nothing to do but go ashore, and once there, no way except by walking to reach Louisville, 25 miles away over a snow-covered trail. But Tocqueville had limitless energy and curiosity. As Political Columnist Richard Reeves observes in this book retracing the French aristocrat's nine-month journey through the U.S., even after the freezing forced march Tocqueville was still restlessly observing and asking questions...
...failed architect." Though the couple's early years are, in Dempster's terse account, full of "sex, sex, sex," the earl is all too soon observed spending more time in boudoirs than in darkrooms. When the lonely princess and mother of two takes up with an eligible aristocrat, Roddy Llewellyn, the earl appears on television. There, playing the crocodile cuckold, he tearfully begs indulgence for Princess Margaret and the children. "Lord Snowdon," Margaret concludes, "was devilish cunning...