Word: aristocratic
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...meaning of the phrase ni hao while Shaq will teach Yao the meaning of the word pain SADDAM HUSSEIN Dictator's novels will be taught in Iraq's schools. Saddam would have preferred Oprah's Book Club, but this should help sales as well COUNT ALVARO DE MARICHALAR Spanish aristocrat crosses the Atlantic on a jet ski. He will return from the Indies with his craft laden with gold and spices Losers ANNA KOURNIKOVA Tennis fem-bot upset at Wimbledon, then blows her top at a BBC interviewer. Her male fans are surprised to find she plays tennis?who knew...
...years. But that is not the only conundrum built into the Queen's role. She keeps her job only if she doesn't exercise any of its powers. She believes she received her calling from God, yet must measure her success through tabloids and pollsters. An elderly white aristocrat raised to believe in Empire, she is expected to embody a whole multicultural nation now wrestling with complex questions of what it means to be British-and English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish...
...snarling face of former President Bush set into the entryway floor, a 10-ft. photo of Saddam looms high over Bush's head. Inside are 22 more images: Saddam smoking a cigar in Iraqi national dress; Saddam in Jordanian headdress, in Palestinian kaffiyeh, in Saudi robes, in a crested aristocrat's jacket with the Dome of the Rock floating overhead. Never before when I've been here has Saddam been so omnipresent...
...watching Jim Broadbent act. His W.S. Gilbert in Topsy-Turvy, the impresario in Moulin Rouge and, most delectably, the barmy aristocrat in A Sense of History (which he wrote) all suggest a beguiling expanse of personality. His work in Iris--as John Bayley, the Oxford professor who escorted his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch (Judi Dench), through Alzheimer's disease--adds tragic bafflement to the gifts on display in Broadbent's work. A Golden Globe nomination and laurels from two critics' groups have given the Englishman a new sensation: "I seem to be entering into the strange world of awards...
...plot centers on the straight-edge love story between a British colonel, Belvile (Matthew J. Weinstock ’05), and Florinda (Anna C. Walters ’05), a young aristocrat who loves the penniless Belville, but is being forced to marry the wealthy Don Antonio (Steven A. Smith...