Word: duchessed
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...crack at the British still is sure to wow the crowds. Last week, KANU's ambitious Secretary-General Tom Mboya, 32, rose at a rally to lash out at the government because it imported the Duke and Duchess of Kent to inaugurate Nairobi's new television station. "It's disgusting that they should open the center when Kenya has six million Africans with their own leaders," huffed Mboya. "All around us were white faces, and we were only little black specks on the scene...
...past - 14th century Japan (Segaki), Yucatan at the time of the Spanish conquest (A Signal Victory), the court of the Pharaoh Ikhnaton (On a Balcony). This time the novelist chooses a subject particularly well suited to his oddly cerebral evocation of blood and brass: the legend of the Duchess of Amain...
...story was old when John Webster used it to write that goriest of Elizabethan dramas, The Duchess of Malfi; Webster borrowed it from a story...
Italian Matteo Bandello, who himself had not invented the tale but had merely written it down. No one knows now, and it is a dreadful thought, but there may actually have been an unfortunate duchess of Amalfi...
...nightmare is too athletic to be staged successfully in an age dulled by realism, but in Stacton's retelling it moves as smoothly as the oiled gears of a stretching rack. The reader's disbelief is abruptly suspended-as from a gibbet-as the rich young widowed duchess runs off with her lover Antonio, and her brothers, the bloody Ferdinand and the scheming Cardinal, stalk her to earth for profit and incestuous love...