Word: dianas
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...panties thrown onstage soon leading to a storm of votive lingerie. It is partly resentment against the in-laws. Despite late damage limitation from the palace, many Britons see the British royal family as villains in this soap opera, stuffy and reactionary guardians of an old order into which Diana came as a lovely catalyst, only to be spurned as young heroines so often...
...perhaps, I like to think, the death of Diana has acted as a kind of catharsis for her nation. This has not been a happy half-century for the British. It has been a time of frustration and febrile self-doubt. Most of the national institutions, from the monarchy itself to the BBC, have lost their old sense of confident authority. In an age when no island is an island anymore, the very national identity, once apparently so unassailable, has been whittled away. British traditions have been discarded, British values have lost their meaning. A great people seems...
...poured. Something, as the old song said, had to give, and perhaps this fantastic display of public grief, so vulgar in many ways, so unconvincing in others, has to it some spiritual element after all. Perhaps in their hearts--or so I hope--the British people see Diana as a fellow victim of degraded times, and have instinctively seized upon her death as the moment for a fresh start...
...obligatory profane words and Marilyn Manson's buttocks, the ceremony last week was remarkably tame for an event that was supposed to celebrate rock 'n' roll. The show was even moving at times, with several performers offering tributes to those who had died, including Notorious B.I.G. and Princess Diana. The SPICE GIRLS, not known for their emotional depth, added a sober note to their saucy little outfits by donning black armbands when they performed. And, sure, BUSTA RHYMES wore a dress, but how wild can an event be when his co-presenter was MARTHA STEWART? Most of the recipients thanked...
...place seemed as unlikely as the coming together of the two principals. In June of this year, Princess Diana went to visit Mother Teresa in New York City's South Bronx, where the founder of the Missionaries of Charity was recuperating from an illness at one of her order's residences. Surrounding the world's two most recognizable women were the dusty tenements and gutted cars of the not yet revived area. The Saint of the Gutters was in her element, which more recently had become Diana's too. That is why the princess came to meet...