Word: aristocratic
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What a Girl Wants, the story of a New York City teen who seeks out her English-aristocrat dad (Colin Firth), takes the easy route of proving Bynes' appeal by making oafs and prigs of the Brits. But in this fable of father finding and mother hugging, Bynes shows her mastery of the pratfall--in one scene, off a fashion-show catwalk and into Prince Charles' lap. She also expertly editorializes with her giant green eyes, which could be out of a Keane or Cocteau painting. She bats, crosses or demurely averts them until the viewer yells uncle, or benignly...
Azzam's killers have never been identified. But the man who gained the most from his demise was his deputy, Osama bin Laden, who took over the role of first among the jihadis. The Saudi aristocrat had been the chief financier of Azzam's organization and a devoted follower since the early 1980s, when he came under Azzam's influence while studying at Jeddah University. Disagreement between master and protege over the shape of a post-Soviet Afghanistan led to a parting of ways in early 1989, and soon bin Laden went off to found al-Qaeda. With Azzam dead...
...about changing notions of liberty and nature; the Victorian era, about emerging concepts of gender and family life; colonialism, about the hubris of liberal humanism. The last hour neatly encapsulates the entire 20th century by comparing Winston Churchill and George Orwell and the very different ways the aristocrat and the socialist championed freedom...
...then there were eight. This year, Harvard womankind brings three new clubs to campus. A 17th-century aristocrat, seven sisters of Greek mythology and still-undecided Greek letters will be the symbols of these new social domains, and their images will soon be scrawled on invitations slipped under doors across campus. One “society” promises to usher recruits into posh V.I.P. rooms; another looks to cultivate a homey atmosphere with popcorn and old movies. In a year when male final clubs have tempered their festive image, the number of female social clubs will soon equal...
Although he is also an old-fashioned snob about taste, Epstein well knows that old-fashioned snobbery is dead. The Waspocracy, as he dubs it, is no longer the arbiter of much of anything--particularly when George W. Bush, a genuine Wasp aristocrat, portrays himself as a good ol' Texan with mud on his cowboy boots...