Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KITZBÜHEL, AUSTRIA. "Kitz" is like Miami Beach with snow, a crowded commercial resort that draws both the packaged-tour trade and the famous. Crown Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden skis here, as do Jet-Setters Günter Sachs and Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, the Krupp heir. Visitors who want to try to ski the multifaceted Hahnenkamm or merely stare at celebrities can get a week's vacation for about...
Victoria gave the crown its prestige again. An iron toughness of spirit enabled her to do so. Indeed without such a will, even her childhood would have been insupportable. Her father, one of the brutish Hanoverian dukes, died when she was only one year old. The widowed duchess then came under the influence of an Irish swindler named John Conroy. It was he who set up the famous "Kensington system" for rearing Victoria. Its aim was to make her totally dependent upon her pathetic mother and so, by remote control, upon Conroy. Little Victoria had to sleep in her mother...
...early-evening darkness from their crew quarters to the launch pad, their path was illuminated by a spotlight shining like a guiding star from a helicopter hovering overhead. At the site, the 36-story rocket gleamed starkly white, lit by searchlight beams that radiated from the pad, forming a crown of light. Nature added to the display: flashes of lightning glowed within distant clouds, and an occasional meteor streaked through the stars in the clear skies above the cape...
...film was shot in California-but the producers seem to find the atmosphere of 1936 as alien as 1066. Nor are they helped by the actors. Faye Dunaway (Simpson) flutters her eyes a lot, but she is not a woman for whom a king would give up his crown-or even a good night's sleep. Richard Chamberlain looks remarkably like old photographs of Edward, but he seems to think that the way a king shows his regality is to affect a look of condescension and constantly crinkle his brow and nose as if he had just smelled something...
...Harvard offers few courses in either subject. Post-graduate indecision is so pervasive that it has become ritualized with Law-Biz combined programs and talk of trading two years of jurisprudence at Oxford for one year of Law School here. A few confirmed wombsters have even sought the "Triple Crown" of Law, Business and Medical degrees. With a class as liberated as last year's once was, it is surprising that it should metaphorically suddenly he on it's back, and spread its legs...