Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack is idealized as a poor free spirit who just happens to be a sensitive artist. DiCaprio displays a youthful charm, and occasionally an intensity that recalls some of his past superb work. The script requires the young Rose (Kate Winslet) to be essentially two different characters: a repressed aristocrat and a rebellious teenager. The imaginative Winslet carefully balances these opposing characteristics with complete success...
Tocqueville, a French aristocrat who travelled in America, recognized the inevitability of the equalizing of conditions in American democracy, but he failed to account for the industrial revolution and the subsequent emergance of market forces, West said...
...This is doubtless unfair, but it came to mind during Pollini's starkly Olympian, unsmiling performance of the Scherzo. I think his motives are simply misunderstood: his "straight-act" approach seeks to rescue great works from the vainglorious fireworks of unprincipled wunderkinden. He is in every way a musical aristocrat...
...about 1987, humor could do little to hide the estrangement. MAINHARDT GRAF NAYHAUSS, a German aristocrat, remembers a party in the Waleses' honor at the German embassy in London. "Diana wore a long red dress," Nayhauss said in a German tabloid. "Around midnight the Munich In crowd was rocking like crazy... Di [was] really with it. She seemed to like the informality of it all. Out of breath from the music, she asked the disc jockey to play something slower. She turned to go back out on the dance floor." But there was a "certain sadness about her," Nayhauss adds...
...YORK: A week of Kennedy bashing to boost media ratings wouldn't be complete without a shot at Camelot. Days after John F. Kennedy Jr. launched a mini family feud, questioning the morality of his cousins in an article sure to boost sales of his magazine, George, a Swedish aristocrat tells ABC's "20/20" she had a six-year affair with John Sr., starting just weeks before he married Jacqueline Bouvier...