Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ENGAGED. Princess Marie-Astrid, 27, eldest daughter of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; and Karl Christian von Habsburg-Lorraine, 27, Brussels banker, son of Archduke Charles Louis of Austria and grandson of the late Austrian Emperor Karl I; in Luxembourg. Princess Marie-Astrid made headlines last year because she was the last eligible princess to be linked with Britain's Prince Charles before he chose Lady Diana Spencer. Astrid's wedding is planned...
...this context, Feste, the punning, cynical clown becomes Frank Sinatra, leaning on the plano with a drink, entertaining the nobility but keeping his distance. James Goldstein as Orsino, the duke who pines for the love of Olivia (Gaye Williams), is a Casablanca Bogart, white dinner jacket and all. The allusion makes his slow transition to lovesick goon particularly hilarious when he takes to staring soulfully into space, smoking cigarettes from a gold case and obliviously blowing clouds of smoke into the face of Viola (Caroline Isenberg), who, from under her disguise as his servant, gazes just as wistfully...
There is a football game somewhere in the film, which provides a light diversion to some of the more serious moments. The ending is really the only bad part of the movie, with Duke McPuke grossly overacting as the cynical character Hangover...
...Harvard, though Giamatti never mentions it. In fact, while the presidents of Duke and Notre Dame are quoted on the book's jacket. Derek Bok's opinion is conspicuous in its absence. Bok's recent writings will be published this spring. Although Bok--in his open letters, annual reports and Commencement addresses--does not show the same humanist facility for language as Giamatti, his legal training would help him illuminate Giamatti's many generalizations which lack supporting evidence...
...Duke Robillard Band--Jacks...