Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Delivers moving oration at sister Diana's funeral...
...then, once upon a time again, the same little girl grew up and fell in love and married a prince. She seemed so happy for such a splendid moment that the whole world paused to marvel at and rejoice with her, falling in love with Diana in love. But she quickly learned that the dynasty she had joined was dysfunctional and synthetic, that although she had borne her husband an heir, she could never truly become his Queen. And when she died, suddenly, a day after the 36th anniversary of her christening, the world, still in love, stopped...
...many people mourn? Why do so many mourn her still? Was it because when the heroine of a fairy tale perishes, something dies in us as well? Diana shared with many people the fond if naive belief that the perfectibility of the family--making it stable, firm, happy--would help save humankind. Her father and mother had failed miserably at family. She did not intend to. But she stumbled into the very nightmare she sought to avoid and became the spectacular mirror for other people's disappointments: the most splendid of cautionary tales. In the monumental ruin of Diana...
...typically eclectic. Should we honor the Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut and his immortal cloned sheep Dolly? What about Tiger Woods' thrilling 350-yd. drives into history? Or Alan Greenspan's steady-on-the-tiller stewardship of America's ongoing economic boom? Or--of course--the life and death of Diana, Princess of Wales...
...Diana coverage The death of the Princess of Wales was one of those events in which a unified global consciousness is created through the miracle of television. Billions watched the Queen make her address, the boys walk behind the casket, Earl Spencer deliver his eulogy. Even in a world of 500 channels, sometimes there is just one thing...