Word: di
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Because Diana's approach is so blunt, her personality comes across in any appearance or photo spread. At 30, "shy Di" is just a memory. Gone are the public episodes of staring intently at the ground, nodding off on daises, as well as the occasional hogging of the spotlight at her husband's expense when the press is around. Diana has found her role. She is a thoroughly modern princess who is an ebullient companion to her boys (there is plenty of help, however, around Kensington Palace) and a zealous patron of her charities. Though she lives by the bizarre...
PROFILE At 30, Princess Di is a model of grace and grit...
...most famous, adored and formidable artists who ever lived -- the classic Dead White Male, so to speak. And when he was a Live White Male, which is to say for the best part of a century -- he was born in 1488 or 1490 in Pieve di Cadore, a hill town in northern Italy, and was carried off by the plague in his beloved but insalubrious Venice in 1576, still painting, at the patriarchal age of nearly 90 -- he posed dreadful problems for other artists. The length of his career condemned all his Venetian contemporaries to be the second choice...
...final decision lies with the obscure B.I.E. The European Communities' Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana, an Italian, has demanded full environmental studies, and says triumphantly that doubts about the Venice site are setting in: "It will finish in the paper basket." But outgoing Mayor Casellati is still worried. "I'm going off to sail in the lagoon," he says. "Before they destroy...
...show's popularity has, predictably, inspired a few furrowed brows as well as belly laughs. Some are concerned that the on-camera spills are dangerous and might encourage reckless behavior; Di Bona and crew have rejected some clips for that reason (like one showing a toddler apparently driving a car, while a parent actually steers off-camera). Others are concerned that people may begin to stage scenes specially for the program. That would spoil the caught-in-the-act charm but would hardly be unexpected. Once you give America a chance to produce a show...