Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlikely setting for a Middle East peace conference. Leeds Castle, a moat-surrounded medieval fortress, is set like a crown jewel in the placid English countryside southeast of London. Henry VIII once lived there with Anne Boleyn, his second wife, before love soured and he had her beheaded. Last week the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Israel sat down at Leeds Castle to try to weave together what was left of the frayed threads of the Middle East peace initiative. The two days of talks between Israel's Moshe Dayan and Egypt's Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel were presided...
...Detroit (on Wednesday). The Detroit tilt will be the next-to-last game of the season for the booters, and a lot should be on the line--a favored spot for the playoffs, Mike Flanigan's chances of edging New York Cosmo Giorgio Chinaglia for the league scoring crown, and lots of pride. But we suspect the Yankee-Red Sox clash on the tube might draw a bit more attention, even with all those commercials...
...more functional side, the Wimbledon finals will be on the tube Saturday afternoon. At this writing, the men's finalists are Borg and Connors, and Martina Navratilova and the redoubtable Chris Evert will duke it out for the women's crown. And for you lovers of the Boston Lobsters, who are still off on their Wimbledon break, well, at last report the team was hotly pursued by a chef with a New burgh recipe. Stay tuned. Seriously, the Wimbledon finals will be on Channel 4, starting Saturday at 12:30 and going on until the cows come home...
With all this going on, he might well show signs of wear, but at 41, Beatty has the looks of a crown prince. He carries his 6-ft. 2-in. frame like a youth of 20. Maybe there are a few crows'-feet around Beatty's bedroom eyes and a small bald spot, but these are minor imperfections. When people lead charmed lives, they age remarkably well. Explains Beatty's friend, Screenwriter Robert Towne (Shampoo): "People say you don't learn from success but from your failures. Warren learns from success...
...much the pragmatist ever to have divided up his kingdom as Lear does, or fall prey to jealousy or doubt as do Othello and Hamlet. While Fate does bring him low, Macbeth's power ploys are realistic assessments of how to seize and hold the crown. But he is afflicted by conscience of a kind. Just prior to killing the gentle Duncan, Macbeth ponders how the horror of it will be perceived in the minds of others...