Word: brides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party of parties before the wedding will be the Queen's ball at the palace, which has a guest list of 5,000. On the wedding evening, with the bride and groom safely off, the Queen just might drop in on Lady Elizabeth Shakerly's rout. Lady Elizabeth discovered that rout is an 18th century term for what lesser mortals might call a blast. "I don't dare do something with caviar and lobster because I can't afford it," the Lady explains. "I am having scrambled eggs and bacon from...
...such a procession, hearing such cheering. But he will be carrying more years then, and a much graver weight. Better to dwell in the present, when the shadows have been beaten back for a few festive days, and a watching world wants to crown him and his bride with only one wish: Godspeed...
...successful that it started Esquire, which in the late 1950s, turned around and swallowed GQ altogether. Then in 1979 Conde and Nash bought the operation, and they run it to this day. Conde and Nash also publish Vogue, House and Garden Glamour, and Mademoiselle. Of course, they publish Bride's, Which can't be all that popular anymore,but to hedge their bets, they also publish Self--obviously figuring that even if there aren't a whole lot of people who want to be brides anymore, everybody wants to be a self...
...your recent article "Abu Dhabi I Do's" [May 11], I was in Abu Dhabi during the wedding celebration. Your reporter really has A Thousand and One Nights imagination: 20 camels laden with jewels, an entire town given to the bride as a present, a 20,000-seat amphitheater, 34 private jets? Surely Americans cannot be so gullible...
...composer and director plan to visit New York City soon to entertain bids for a Broadway version of Cats from some of the same angels who thought the project too risky to invest in when it needed funds a few months ago. So the Prince of Wales and his bride-to-be are not the only British couple who have reason to smile these days. Catch Lloyd Webber or Nunn off-guard, and you are likely to see a mile-wide Cheshire-cat grin. -By Richard Corliss