Word: di
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high spirits sometimes got the better of high style. Here was the first great spectacle graced with the trendified traditionalism of the second generation, the young royals. Even the Queen forsook her trademark bucket-size handbag for a small clutch that could have been borrowed from Daughter-in-Law Di. The royals know how to follow trends, it seems, as well as how to set them...
...guessed that since Pakkoku wasn't on any of our maps, it must be a tiny village; it turned out to be a city of 200,000. We stayed at a family inn called the Myayatanar, where innkeeper Tint San spoke impeccable English and his son played "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da" on the guitar. They took us into town to the festival that was going on that night. We expected another pwe, but instead it was a huge carnival with a ferris wheel, Kung Fu movies blaring, and enormous garish posters everywhere--so much for quaint village life...
...instead of the 1812 Overture--and maybe there'll even be dancing girls. If you get one of the sought after two-for-$350 seats in the prestigious 4000-person Crimson Circle, you'll get a better view, and maybe you'll be sitting right next to Charles and Di...
...Linda Stuart started a Los Angeles firm offering advice at an average $1,500 a pop on how to get the shebang together, and their consulting business is booming. "It's part of the whole yuppie thing," Blackburn thinks. "Going back to tradition. The Reagan Administration. The economy. Princess Di and Prince Charles...
...diplomacy. Having noticed a Japanese parliament member dozing while her husband addressed the Diet, the Princess later good-naturedly asked if he had been asleep or practicing Zen meditation. The politician smoothly replied that he had closed his eyes the better to listen to the prince's speech. Wry Di thanked him with a knowing chuckle...