Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Anne, who ranks after her three brothers in the line of succession, is not popular in Britain. In a recent opinion poll of royal favorites, Anne ranked third from last, topping only Princess Margaret (who has a special haughty flair for alienating the public) and her cousin the Duke of Kent (who is known in court circles as "the chinless wonder"). Like her father, Prince Philip, Anne has always enjoyed needling reporters and the English paparazzi. Unlike her father, she seems to have no saving wit. When she fell off her horse during a jumping competition in Kiev last...
Baker describes the closing series of songs in the Sha concert as an example of keeping an audience up: "We go from 'Duke of Earl' to 'Rama Lama Ding Dong' to 'At the Hop'--just bam bam bam. We're out of there. Come back on for 'Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay.' Come back on--our encores are all up tempo until we've got them standing on their feet. And then we just go--bam--and let them down with "Lovers Never Say Goodbye' and they know it's over. It's like a play or anything...
...conclusion of the concert (which the group wisely left unchanged) that is the culmination of the hard core rock-and-roll fan's love for Sha Na Na. Starting slowly with "Duke of Earl," the band increases the tempo and intensity of its performance with each succeeding song gently arousing the audience. With a passionate frenzy the group rocks through "Tossin' and Turnin," "Rama Lama Ding Dong," and the show-ending "At the Hop" to bring the audience to a breathless peak of excitement...
Westminster Abbey had never vibrated to such a rhythm: 2,000 fans clapping as Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, 74, danced and hand-clapped his way down the nave after giving a concert of a dozen new compositions of his own in honor of United Nations Day. Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Edward Heath were among the Ellington loyalists who heard the choir of the Royal College of Music and Swedish Soprano Alice Bobs sing lyrics never to be found in the Anglican hymnal. "Is God a three-letter word for love," they caroled, "or is love a four-letter word...
...scholarship born and bred. Her father, the Earl of Longford, a sometime leader of the House of Lords, is also the author of a number of books on topics that range from banking to philosophy. Her mother Elizabeth is a distinguished biographer of Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington. One sister is a novelist; another turns out textbooks. A younger brother is a historian...