Word: duchessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...help make ends meet, Penn threw open its doors to vermin like me, admitting 4,491 students, a thousand more than in 1970. I wasn't aware of this either, but Penn clearly was and no doubt looked upon my class the way a bankrupt duchess might view the tourists using her castle as a bed-and-breakfast. Universities may lack the profit imperative that drives corporations, but they are just as fiercely competitive, always striving to get the best students, the best scholars, the best grants in order to attain the most prestige. Like every other top-tier institution...
...sets were appropriately largescale and colorful, with a retrofuturistic spaceship and a powerfully suggestive open-jawed entrance to the Duchess Tisimmense's lair. The costumes were spectacular, especially the metallic droids', Hugh Jegg's and the Duchess' with its immense accoutrements...
Rosenberg, who portrays the aptly named Duchess Tisimmense, admits that he is pretty happy with his role, which requires a voluptuously shaped costume and flashing lights in all the right places...
...DUCHESS OF YORK put on a brave face at the launch of the James and the Giant Peach video in New York City--and made the movie's star, PAUL TERRY, put one on as well. Back home, however, things weren't so peachy. First, the Daily Mirror published conversations taped by Fergie's psychic, "Madame Vasso" Kortesis, in which the two use kitschy code: referring to Di as "Blondie" and Fergie's men by numbers. Her ex, Prince Andrew, is No. 2; lover-in-her-dreams-only John F. Kennedy Jr., No. 9. Then, Fergie stopped trying to block...
THAT'S WALLIS AS IN WALLACE According to a new book on the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Simpson was a man. The author, Michael Bloch, was told this by a doctor whose colleague had examined...