Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia won her second Australian Open women's singles title and earned the fourth Grand Slam crown of her career, upsetting Martina Navratilova, the world's top-ranked player...
Fantastic parties are a Khashoggi signature. Christmas was a simple tea compared with his 50th-birthday fete in 1985, at which he entertained more than 400 guests at a three-day extravaganza. His birthday cake, a model of Louis XIV's coronation crown, was created by a chef who was flown to the Louvre to study the original. Khashoggi's parties also take place in his 30,000-sq.-ft. quarters incorporating the 46th and 47th floors of the Olympic Towers in Manhattan. Created out of 16 separate apartments, the abode has a pool that overlooks the spires...
Wild Honey originated at Britain's National Theater. This staging reunites much of the same creative team, including Director Christopher Morahan (TV's The Jewel in the Crown) and Set Designer John Gunter, who delightfully fills the stage with fireworks, birch forests, rustic homes and railroad cars -- the last achieved with special effects cheerily akin to "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" at Disney World. The one vital element not imported was the cast surrounding McKellen. Fortunately, the unevenness of the American replacements barely affects the savor of Wild Honey...
...clean, antic style of the Warner Bros. cartoons lives in the pages of William the Backwards Skunk (Crown; $10.95). And why not? The artist-author is Chuck Jones, 74, director of so many Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Road Runner animated shorts that even he has lost count. Jones has no trouble recalling the number of books he has produced: this is his first. The star is a highly odiferous creature who wears his white stripe in front, where no enemy can see it. In the forest, confusion reigns supreme. The panthers, foxes and bears are afraid to hunt; without...
...year without a Maurice Sendak book is like a dinner without ice cream. This season the doyen of children's books has produced nothing new, but his Posters (Crown; $45) collects in an oversize volume works that few enthusiasts have ever seen. Here are his broadsides for operas by Mozart and Janacek (with sets and costumes from designs by the artist). Here are brilliant announcements for the International Year of the Child; a magnificent lion and butterfly for the Broadway flop Stages; and 1985's poster for Jewish Book Month, with the sound rabbinical advice, "To three possessions thou shouldst...