Word: consorte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crown Prince showed his mettle in 1959 when he chose for his bride Michiko Shoda, the first nonaristocrat elevated to royal consort. Apprehensive about becoming a member of the royal family, she was at first reluctant to accept Akihito's proposal, but his passionate wooing won her over. They were married amid nationwide celebration...
Bidding began on Friday for Warhol's collection of more than 75 paintings and drawings, ranging from old masters through French impressionists to Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell (represented by a portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy). A pair of 7 1/2-ft. portraits of Britain's George III and his consort Queen Charlotte went for $40,700. Still higher prices were expected this week in the sale of Warhol's modern and contemporary art acquisitions, although aside from several Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtensteins, Robert Rauschenbergs and the like, experts found this part of his collection far less impressive than might have been...
...role he definitely plays is to support another of Japan's driving principles: pleasure as big business. Foot-high dolls of his consort Minnie in kimono go for more than $60 in Tokyo Disneyland, and the number of ice creams sold there in a single year would, if piled up, reach 14 times as high as 12,388-ft. Mount Fuji...
...aspiring Manhattan writer, never met Frank Doel, the antiquarian across the sea, yet their business correspondence about old books gradually took on the intimacy of love letters about literature. She described, with chatty eloquence, her sensuous safari through the world of words; he tracked down her requests with a consort's fond diligence...
...spreading throughout the general population, in the U.S., it is concentrated among high-risk groups: homosexual and bisexual men and intravenous drug abusers. The proportion of heterosexual cases, however, is increasing at a worrisome rate. For the present the heterosexuals facing the greatest threat are those most likely to consort with infected drug addicts: mainly the inner-city poor, who tend to be black or Hispanic. "Two- thirds of the heterosexual cases now are black and Hispanic, concentrated on the East Coast," says Curran. "I would predict that AIDS would spread fastest in those communities...