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Charles remains lightheartedly coy about his marital prospects. "If I got married, I wouldn't be able to do the samba like I did the other night," he told reporters on his visit to South America in March. Meanwhile, he has turned increasingly serious about his royal duties since retiring from active duty in the navy last year with the rank of commander...
...kiosk is to remain on the register, it cannot be moved or relocated unless it is clearly in danger of destruction, Coy M. Lasister, grant coordinator for the Massachusetts Historical Committee, said Yesterday...
While Feydeau whisks his characters about with a wand of madness, he also displays surgical detachment in dissecting the foibles of the French middle class. The men tend to be pompous hypocrites. The women seek out opportunities for sexual revenge but are coy about entering the beds they have promised to grace. Not exclusively French...
...Rotten, Vicious, Jones and Drummer Paul Cook are only in their early 20s, but they have mastered the art of the 1950s pelvic thrust completely. Rotten is the live shell: an emaciated, electric figure who jumps from simian crouch to arm-swinging swirl to Groucho Marx prowl. Dissolving a coy smile into a demonic leer, he half snarls, half shouts the notorious Anarchy...
...books can not be gauged from sales figures. There only one reliable indicator of favorites: the library card. Books, after all, are merely purchased by adults; they are read by the young. This year, as in all years, the market is glutted with the inane and the precious, the coy and the overproduced-volumes designed to catch the shopper's eye, not the child's heart. Still, this year, as in all years, a few volumes have the aura of permanence: books that will not only be bought but-far more important-also borrowed...