Word: camelot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Return of Camelot...
...Britain is preparing for, albeit with a slight reversal of roles. At Westminster Abbey this Wednesday, with suitable pomp and ceremony, Prince Andrew of the House of Windsor weds his commoner (but uncommon) love, Sarah Ferguson. But near Hyannis Port, Mass., last Saturday, the bride was the Princess of Camelot when Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, 28, daughter of President John F. Kennedy and former First Lady Jacqueline Onassis, was married to the very un-Kennedyesque Edwin Arthur Schlossberg, 13 years her senior...
From that meeting sprang a partnership that enriched the American musical theater with Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), Camelot (1960) and the show many credit as the genre's best, My Fair Lady (1956). Those lush romantic period pieces became big-budget Hollywood movies, usually with scripts by Lerner, and the two created another nostalgic costume epic, Gigi (1958), directly for the screen. Their style of show eventually went out of fashion. Their songs never did: Thank Heaven for Little Girls, If Ever I Would Leave You, They Call the Wind Maria, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face...
...apparel chain. At Choate and Harvard, he was a schoolmate of John F. Kennedy's and later became a sort of goodwill ambassador between the Kennedy White House and the arts. Jacqueline Kennedy, after her husband's assassination, likened his brief tenure to the fleeting glory evoked in Camelot...
...fall of their senior year, most members of the class were eligible to vote for the first time, at the age of 21. Kennedy was the favorite son and won 62 percent of the Class of '61 vote. When Kennedy brought Camelot from the Senate to the White House, the Class revelled in the glory of every Harvardian's favorite alum...