Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perennial faces in the news includes outspoken professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the author of Chutzpah who recently made headlines for leading Mike Tyson's appeal. Ron Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, a film based on Dersh's defense of Rhode Island aristocrat Claus von Bulow...
...trouble began even before the marriage. The 1981 royal match between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, a touchingly pretty aristocrat of 20, needed no hype. It really was a picture-perfect wedding. The sheltered bride- to-be blushed and gazed with ardor at her proud fiance. She had little to say for herself, nothing much at all in the way of experience, accomplishment or taste. But the press spotted its new idol. Diana quickly became an international obsession. Before the girl reached the altar, her distraught mother had written the Times of London to complain with poignant naivete that...
WHAT A DREAM CAST: ROGER REES IN HIS first New York theater role since he won the Tony for Nicholas Nickleby, as a British aristocrat turned Southern California hustler; TV stars Nancy Marchand of Lou Grant, double-cast as his London mother and his Los Angeles boss, and Jean Smart of Designing Women, as both of his abused wives. What a pity that promising playwright Jon Robin Baitz, 30, who in THE END OF THE DAY parallels Old World and New World corruption from charity medical wards to drug dealing to corporate raiding, can't stitch together a coherent narrative...
...machines were turningout 50 million pairs of shoes a year. McKay becamerich and gave Harvard four million dollars, whichendowed not just one or two professorships, but anentire department--the Division of AppliedScience. Shoe technology has not changed muchsince McKay's time. McKay would recognize theLandis Aristocrat sewing machine that stands inFelix's workspace...
...response to the U.S. message, Cedras promptly promoted several soldiers in a move the Bush administration represented as "disciplining." Not disciplining the army, though, but the people--several of these men were involved in Baby Doc's regime. A triumphant Haitian aristocrat announced in appropriately obscure language: "We are heading in the direction of absorbing this crisis." He is right...