Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House, with Julie Harris and Jason Robards. The last two shows in the series have not yet been chosen. The producers are still searching for such treasures as the kinescope of a 1955 version of The Petrified Forest, which teamed Humphrey Bogart, who had played the original Duke Mantee, with a new Gabrielle-Lauren Bacall. Gold must have looked like brass in those days, so casually were now priceless kinescopes discarded...
...Johnston, who recently received a knighthood for his organizational skills). It also, of course, has a supporting cast of thousands. Along with the home-grown aristocrats, there are all the invited guests: political (Nancy Reagan); monarchical (Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, the King and Queen of Sweden, the Duke and Duchess of Liechtenstein); social (Sabrina Guinness, Sir Hugh Casson); and sentimental (Flo Moore, who kept Charles' Cambridge rooms in order; Henry and Cora Sands, who provided Charles with some homemade bread during holidays in Eleuthera; Patrick and Nancy Robertson, an American couple whose son Lady Diana played nanny...
...mostly middle-aged and middle-class throng had converged on the Hyatt's expansive lobby for another in a popular new series of weekly dances. Admittance required only a fondness for the fox trot. "Tea dances," the promoters were billing these mildly recherche gatherings: Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington tunes were featured, and Friday's Big Band, Steve Miller and His Orchestra, had played the occasions before. The hotel has a ballroom, but the glassy lobby is nearly as large and, in the fading summer light, far more inspiring...
...welcomed the opportunity to snub each other: they led their companies to opposite sides of the school cafeteria. But in the decades that followed, the rivalries waned. The festival has nurtured a range of choreography-Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor, José Limon and Pilobolus. Now held on the Duke University campus in Durham, N.C., the 47-year-old A.D.F. is a raucous gathering of the barefoot clans. Even ballet is now taught as part of the curriculum for the 230 multinational students of new dance...
Peter Alzado does not yet speak verse well enough to warrant being entrusted with both the Duke of Burgundy and the herald Montjoy. But Isabelle Rosier is an unalloyed delight as the 19-year-old princess Katharine, whom Henry woos with inadequate French even while wearing the correct French motto of the Order of the Garter embroidered on his leg riband...