Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweep, with lengthy red tresses flowing down her green gown. Before she has uttered a syllable, we know that this is a woman to be reckoned with, a woman of enormous inner strength. She is able to go on to make it clear that she does not covet the crown just for her own sake but wants her husband to be king at any costs because she is so much in love with him. She introduces a novel twist at the end of her first conversation with him: instead of making her whole concluding speech at once, she says...
Shrieking the Japanese equivalent of "Oh, my gosh!" Tokyo Fashion Model Akiko Kojima. 22, exuded sheer joy at the happy news. She was the new Miss Universe, the first Asian ever to take the crown in the international beauty contest, held last week for the eighth year in Long Beach, Calif. Burbled Akiko over her fast-breaking curves (37-23-38): "I am floating on a cloud and living a dream!" Overwhelmed by new-found fondness for the U.S., she also announced that she wants to live in the U.S. eventually, raise a family, be "a lovely wife...
Japan's comely Crown Princess Michiko, 24, suddenly stopped appearing at public functions with Crown Prince Akihito only three months after the royal wedding (TIME, April 20). Then the imperial household's chamberlain issued a very cautious bulletin: Michiko "may be with child," but the doctors are not yet absolutely positive...
...recently published Painter's Self-Portrait (Crown; $12.50), Rosenberg pays tribute to Cezanne, who shows nature's "very heart and skeleton; it has been these depths that I have sought, and seek, to penetrate." Yet he does not confuse himself with the master. Of his own pictures, says Rosenberg: "Whatever their fate, I am content. My landscapes are magic carpets on which I have flown from a world embittered by fear, hate and greed to regions of peace, joy and beauty. For which I humbly give thanks...
MONTSERRAT, "the Saw-Toothed Mountain," is one of the holiest places in the shrine-rich Mediterranean world. Rising in sheer purple splendor above the plain 30 miles inland from Barcelona, Spain, the mountain is topped with spires of steeple-like rock. And there, inside the crown, perches an ancient fortress-monastery, where the "Black Virgin" is enshrined. Legend has it that the dark wooden Madonna with the Child upright in her lap appeared as if by miracle within a cave in the mountain one day ten centuries ago. First a church, then a monastery was built near the peak...