Word: camelot
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...television"; in Leatherhead, England. Wheeler supervised excavations in the Indus Valley of India and Pakistan and over a wide area of Roman Britain. He believed in King Arthur, and in southwestern England his diggers unearthed bits of pottery and knives they thought came from Camelot...
...every billing it was the musical that could not miss. At the top of the credit lines for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue were two of the arts' most potent names: Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner of My Fair Lady and Camelot fame and West Side Story Composer Leonard Bernstein. The show, about the lives and times of 13 early Presidents, was a Bicentennial natural, and the Coca-Cola Co. eagerly footed the $1.2 million cost of bringing a 45-member cast and a 30-piece orchestra together for five weeks of rehearsals in New York and tryouts in Philadelphia and Washington...
...last two tries for the theater, a stage version of Gigi and Lolita, My Love, were flops and that two previous shows, Coco and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, were coolly received by the critics. In fact, Lerner's last clear-cut hit was Camelot in 1960, while Bernstein had not written for Broadway since West Side Story...
...months as millions of Americans switch TV dials from Sonny and Cher to Sonja and Harald and Liz and Phil spectaculars. The royals have always been polished performers. They have, after all, been in the magic business for a long, long time, and their claim to the copyright on Camelot is, in many ways, as enduring as it ever was. Democracies have long since learned they can live comfortably either with them or without them. But the mystique of nationhood is as elusive of definition as ever, and wherever Kings and Queens still hold scepter, if not sway, they continue...
...rich - preferably old - man. Instead, she is snared by Harry Shawcross, a young producer of public relations films who needs a presentable wife to complete his résumé. As Mrs. Shawcross, Lilly moves to Washington where Harry is on the fringes of John Kennedy's Camelot. But she refuses to play the docile Guinevere. At one point she even draws attention to herself when she is the only woman at a party who does not jump fully clothed into the swimming pool...