Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culture clash. Crown Prince Felipe of Spain, a mucho eligible bachelor, has been hanging out lately with an American lass, Giselle Howard--to the delight of Spanish paparazzi. One of them, Carlos Arriazu, was overeager, and is being charged with illegal wiretapping after he was caught in a sting operation while trying to tap Howard's phone. Arriazu says he didn't know wiretapping was illegal in America...
This brooding resignation takes over in one of the first cop novels to come out of Sarajevo's agony, The Monkey House (Crown; 384 pages; $25). Author John Fullerton, a British reporter who covered Sarajevo during the war, has patterned his story after Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith's shadowy 1981 tale of cold war Moscow. Rosso, Fullerton's cop, is a Croat chief inspector of detectives investigating a murder that may be tied to the city's metastasizing drug trade...
...topic. The best possible scenario now is a three-act drama: long, long life to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who is exemplary; a brief reign for Charles, who might be as old as 70 or so when he ascends the throne; and then the reign of Wills, the crown's last, best hope...
...next 25 years than it has in the last. Wills will preside over a much reduced list of who is "royal." And he will have to make the institution credible to the country while at the same time not stint on the elaborate ceremonies that give the crown most of its luster. One step in the right direction is that Wills is a fan of soccer, a game his countrymen are fanatic about but which most royals, who seem to associate athletic endeavor with horses, ignore...
...Star Wars and Star Trek. "Movie tie-ins outsell regular science fiction by quite a bit," Brown says with a sniff. "We don't consider them real science fiction." A bit more acceptable, though still off the point, are traditional sword-and-sorcery fantasies like Robert Jordan's A Crown of Swords (Tor), which debuted at No. 2 on last week's New York Times list...