Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could coax meaning out of a computer printout; no demon lover like Laurence Olivier, with hellfire in his eyes and the coil of sexual danger. Sir Ralph walked the earth, with sure, heavy strides. When he left it last week at 80, his place was secure in the triple crown of great English actors whose work spanned and illuminated the century...
...when, as Guest Contributor William Bolitho of the New York World says: "Young men dressed like this in the evenings and had fun . . . Look at Chevalier's queer straw hat with the same shiver as you see the Cap of Liberty stuck up in Tammany Hall, or the Crown of England. There is human history...
...since Citation turned the trick in 1948 has a thoroughbred been so heavily favored to win racing's Triple Crown. The wonder horse called Secretariat had won impressive victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Still, going into the $150,200 Belmont Stakes, the last and longest (1½ miles) of the three classics, the strapping chestnut colt was bucking the very formidable odds of history...
...over beauty. But the 21-year-old winner, Lidia Wasiak (35-24-36), is a knockout by any ideological standard. The competition for Poland's first beauty queen in 25 years was held last week at Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science, where Wasiak won the crown that opens the way to the Miss World contest this November in London. A crowd of 4,000 watched their comely comrades parade across the stage in regional costumes, evening gowns and finally, in an inescapable concession to bourgeois tradition, bikinis. Miss Polonia 1983 already has a flair...
...women's tennis team won its first Ivy crown...