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...true secret of Britain's new role, which is something between that of Nkrumah's Ghana and Anthony Hope's Ruritania, was best revealed in last week's royal wedding, when Princess Anne was joined to her bridegroom, the semiarticulate Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. Outside observers might not have spotted the true significance of the event. They noted the depraved sentimentality and obsequiousness of newspaper and television coverage. On top of this, they heard the ribald comments of any English friends who happened to be around. They might have decided that the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Welcome to Ruritania | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...Chicago, the Second City revue has a brand-new skit about a newlywed couple honeymooning at the Watergate. "What would you like for lunch?" the bridegroom asks. "A ham sandwich," replies the bride. Instantly a waitress bursts into the room with the ham sandwich. "If you want anything else," she says cheerfully to the dumbfounded couple, "just talk loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Watergate Wit | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...bridegroom's seven children and the bride's six-year-old daughter joined Best Man Frank Sinatra at the most lavish reception ever recalled by the staff of the Beverly Hills Hotel. The assistant chef had spent five days in the freezer molding the names of Newlyweds Dean Martin, 55, and Catherine Mae Hawn, 25, into a massive ice sculpture of hearts and cherubs. Under 15 hanging cages of cooing white doves, 85 guests enjoyed Dean's favorite beluga caviar ($190 a pound) and Dom Pérignon ($33 a bottle). The bride and groom stayed only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 7, 1973 | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...fact the French, who are both the instigators and the vacillating hosts of the EEC summit, seem to regard it the way a calculating bridegroom looks on a marriage ceremony: It would be easier to elope, but what would everybody say? When asked why the meeting was being held at all, Pompidou justified it on the "negative" basis that "not to hold it would be an act with grave consequences." He added, with scarcely more enthusiasm, "I hope that when we are all around the table, a European flame will glow a little brighter, and France will not seek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMON MARKET: The Summit: Details in Place of Dreams | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

Mouchette Harvard Epworth Church. 7, April 13, $1. Machorka - Muff With Not Reconcile, The Bridegroom and The Comedienne and The Pimp. 7, April 16. Free, Une Femme Douce by Robert Bresson. 7, April 20. Tauw by Ousmane Sembene with Walkover by Jerzy Skolimowski. 7, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 4/13/1972 | See Source »

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