Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Palace correspondents claim that Diana has shed her early shyness and credit her new high spirit to her sister-in-law the Duchess of York, formerly Sarah Ferguson and known in headlines simply as "Fergie." Already 26 when she married Charles' younger brother Prince Andrew last year, Fergie arrived at Buckingham Palace with a large circle of partygoing friends and a relaxed, fun-loving demeanor. Di and Fergie made the papers at the annual Ascot races last month when, giggling, they prodded acquaintances from behind with their umbrellas. Later, when Princess Michael of Kent walked by, Diana reportedly greeted...
...here will find far more of the imperious exterior with far less of the twinkly sugar daddy beneath. In O'Toole's view, the play is only outwardly about the civilizing of the street- corner flower seller Eliza Doolittle, who learns from " 'iggins" the speech and manner of a duchess. Underneath, he says, the play is about taming Higgins, a knowing product of the world of decorum and privilege who has never envisioned a place in it for himself. Perhaps the key line of dialogue is Higgins' tossed-off confession, "I've never been able to feel really grown...
...days later in a lakefront tent at the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva, another event began: the sale of the late Duchess of Windsor's jewelry, organized by Christie's rival auction house Sotheby's. Here was a nominal contrast at least, since though everyone admires Van Gogh, none but a snob or a fantasist (not that we are short of either) could feel much nostalgia for Wallis Simpson and her husband, who abdicated the throne of England in 1936 and was obliged to spend the war years as governor of the Bahamas on account of his thinly veiled Nazi...
Stunned by last week' s record price for Van Gogh' s Sunflowers, the art world looks for reasons. But the sale -- no less than the $50 million auction of the Duchess of Windsor' s jewels -- is only a symptom of hype and greed. The public sense of art is demeaned as a wealthy entrepreneurial class fixates on "masterpieces" and private collectors drive museums out of the market...
...Cartoonist William Steig continues to create with a master's style and a youth's imagination. In his 20th book, Brave Irene (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95), the daughter of a fevered dressmaker attempts to deliver a ball gown to a faraway duchess. Young Irene is faced with cold, snowdrifts and night. Lesser individuals might need rescuers, but this child has ingenuity to go with her spunk. She turns the dress box into a toboggan and slides her way to the ball. Young ladies have come a long way since Hans Christian Andersen's little match girl froze her toes...