Word: boleyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have: a sense of mystery and radiance in her presence. When she first appears on stage or screen, the spectator feels his skin begin to prickle. In A Man for All Seasons, she appeared in a single scene and spoke a single line, but the aura of her Anne Boleyn was so enthralling that she got more attention from many critics than most of the featured players. Yet Vanessa can play comedy too, and play it dazzlingly. In Morgan!, cast as the better-class bride of a young artist who after careful consideration has decided he is a gorilla...
...claim other distinguished people and events too: King John signed the Magna Carta within the parish boundary, and King Henry VIII courted Second Wife Anne Boleyn in the yard of one of the Thames-side houses-that caused a rumpus...
...Great Fosters, only half an hour from London, is believed to have been built by Henry VIII in the 16th century. Its residents have included Henry's doomed queen Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I and James I. Great Fosters' unique feature is its celebrated gardens, trimmed through the centuries by fleets of gardeners. Its antique atmosphere is further heightened by the formality of its more than 50 servants. The 22 guest rooms range from $10.50 a day (for a single) to $24 (for a double suite...
...telescoping of history heightens its ironies. In a letter to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII can scarcely contain his urge to make her the "only mistress" of his life: "Whose pretty duckys I trust shortly to kiss." The very next reading is a letter Anne Boleyn sent from the Tower to plead for her life. Then comes a king who does not plead. Peremptorily charged with treason, Charles I stands on his divine rights: "I do not know how a king can be a delinquent." He rebukes his judges with a concept that is still sound after four centuries: "If power...
...Seasons is Sir Thomas More, 16th century wit, lawyer, scholar, author (Utopia), Lord Chancellor of England, and Christian martyr. The King is Henry VIII, who had Sir Thomas beheaded when More-in denying the King's right to divorce Queen Catherine and marry Anne Boleyn-refused to sign an oath proclaiming the King supreme ruler of the church. More did not choose to lose his life; he did choose not to lose his soul...