Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson Wins Big 3 Crown...
...asked a man who sold coal out of his little, shack what the neighborhood was called. He said "The 15th of August." I said that I thought this was La Limonada. "Oh, some folks call it that, because so many here have to sell lemonade. Others call it the Crown of Thorns, because it rings the city. Are you in the Peace Corps?" No, I wasn't, why did they call it the 15th of August...
...complex of brobdingnagian proportions. One-tenth of the country's labor force works for government enterprises, including railways, docks, airlines, bus lines, hotels, steel mills, electric plants, and telephone, trucking and container firms. Today, however, Edward Heath's Conservative government wants to sell off some of the Crown's more profitable but less strategic companies. From the opposition that is developing, it would appear that Heath was trying to pawn the Crown jewels...
...before the Protectorate. One of those lumbering ironies for which such films strive ( Anne concluded with a pan shot of Good Queen Bess as a tot) was in Cromwell based on blatant contrivance: Cromwell the regicide was not forced during the Commonwealth to reject fawning Parliamentarians offering him a crown, though Hughes has written a totally factious scene into his screenplay precisely to that effect. The film succeeds no better as history than it has as entertainment...
...contradiction when he has Claudius invite Hamlet to kill him, and willingly accept the poison cup, because his sense of politics makes him realize that he is done for as a king, anyway. This is remarkably silly, arguing that a man who has done so much to gain a crown will give it up willingly...