Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter how republican in sympathies, are talking seriously about tossing Her Majesty out after 40 dedicated years on the throne. Enoch Powell, a former Conservative Party Cabinet minister and an authority on constitutional matters, argues that passing blips like the Fergie photographs cannot hurt the enduring power of the crown because Britain "is not governed by something called the royal family. It is governed by the single person of the sovereign...
...been less and less easy for her descendants. There were problems with her eldest son as Prince of Wales and later as Edward VII -- a remarkable womanizer and rakehell by the standards of any era. But George V and George VI, Elizabeth's father, who assumed the crown after Edward VIII's abdication, were devoted family men who publicly upheld their roles as Defender of the Faith. The present Queen, in the 45th year of her marriage to Prince Philip, has never personally attracted a breath of scandal...
...minor leagues all their lives don't really appreciate what awaits them at the presidential level," says Michael Dukakis, who has more than a nodding acquaintance with the majors. As a nonprofessional, Perot recoiled when reality intruded, a petulant autocrat who apparently expected a grateful nation to crown him without dissent...
...When divers leap for Olympic perfection off the open-air platform in Barcelona, their performances will be rivaled by the view -- by cable cars moving past Columbus on his column pointing to the New World; by the crown of thorns of the 13th century cathedral La Seu; by the unfinished confection of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, its eight towers reaching to the sky even as the divers speed downward, trying not to make a splash...
When Magic Johnson told the world last year that he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, even those who could not tell a triple double from a Triple Crown felt a knelling sense of loss. Much of the reason for this lies with Magic himself: bringing entertainment to the world of sports, and sports to the world of entertainment, he had a rare gift for making hard work look like fun, and miracles seem as easy as a stroll down to the candy store. But there was something more to it than that. Magic, in a sense...