Word: courtiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dallas Cowboys had little-d demolished the Green Bay Packers 38-27 in the N.F.C. championship game, owner Jerry Jones walked into the room to the acclaim he so richly deserved, or paid for, depending on your point of view. "You did it, Big Daddy!" said a cowboy-booted courtier. Actually, Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin and the other boys did it, but with the team about to win a third Super Bowl in four years, it's hard not to credit Jones, especially with that huge Nike symbol hanging from the cables above the field...
Foley takes liberties with the usual portrayals of Shakespeare's characters, creating a new sense of politics in the Danish court. David Bottorf as Polonius is anything but a doddering old fool -- he's an overbearing and controlling father and courtier. When Polonius sells the king and queen he knows the cause of Hamlet's lunacy, it's more a command to listen than a plea for audience...
...Orlando," originally published in 1928, chronicles the life of an Elizabethan courtier from the 16th century to modern times. It was made last year into a movie starring Tilda Swanson...
...evidence that the princess or her intimates had anything to do with the other biographies. For admirers of Prince Charles, Campbell's is the choice. Her sources are something of a mystery, but the citations are unintentionally hilarious: "an aristocrat whose brother-in-law is a senior courtier," "a titled schoolmate of Diana's," "a famous socialite." Davies' is the most balanced account but also the vaguest. The books read as if written in haste, and they contain many discrepancies...
When the revolution erupted in 1917, Nicholas reacted with bizarre passivity. He abdicated and went quietly into exile in Tobolsk, relieved to have exchanged his gilded prison for a more tranquil confinement. But this soft-spoken autocrat, whose exquisite manners and flickering will had once led a courtier to describe him as "nodding tirelessly in opposite directions," was no match for the hard men of Bolshevism. Their fledgling regime, already embroiled in intramural disputes, was threatened by enemies on all sides, and they saw the Romanovs as both a potential threat and a trump card. From the relative comfort...