Word: diana
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Dinners at the White House these days are so tasteful that nobody rushes to a phone later to chortle about the peanut soup and catfish paté. Diana could spin one delicious backbite like that into a column. Now, she says, the absolute, ultimate social event in Western civilization is the small dinner given by Ronnie and Nancy in the private quarters. The one coming up for Britain's Charles and his Diana will, in McLellan's view, elevate the 80 participants to social sainthood...
Speaking of misbehavior, Diana offers some startling judgments, none based on anything even remotely resembling scientific evidence, but collected impressions of a shrewd eye. Heterosexual hanky-panky, says she, reached its peak during the Carter years, even as the power brokers were seen praying more openly and often. "These days," says Diana, "gay life is far more extensive in the Government than is reported...
Charles and Diana, the First Couple of British public relations, are not in Washington on a state visit. They are patrons of the National Gallery of Art's sumptuous show, "The Treasure Houses of Britain" (to which Charles has lent the painting The Shooting Party, by John Wootton). They are also paying a call to a suburban JCPenney to give the royal seal of approval to the store's "Best of Britain" merchandising campaign...
Their Royal Highnesses are the souls of punctuality, and their Royal Australian Air Force jet touched down at Andrews right on time, at 8:40 a.m. When Diana and Charles stepped out of the plane into sparkling sunshine, the crowd of 4,000 royalty oglers let out a deferentially reserved hurrah. Diana, dressed in a radiant red suit with a white shawl collar and wearing an oversize red fez, was clearly the cynosure...
...royal couple spent nearly 20 minutes with the crowd, with Diana paying special attention to a group of handicapped children. One of them, 16-year-old Jonathan Lollar of Ocean Springs, Miss., got his dearest wish. Blind and suffering from an inoperable tumor, Lollar was enabled by the Make-a-Wish Foundation of America to come to Washington to meet the Princess. He was not disappointed. Diana was offered flowers and gifts, which she, like a practiced quarterback, deftly handed off to a lady-in-waiting behind...