Word: elizabeth
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...could have been. Nor was he the greatest success at the box office, although 20 years ago he was almost certainly the highest-paid actor in the world. But for the better part of the '60s and '70s, the years of his romance with and marriages to Elizabeth Taylor-the Elizabethan years, as he later called them-he was one of the most celebrated men on the planet. Amplified by the resources of modern media, the lovemaking and the battles of Liz and Dick echoed across oceans. Many critics thought him the greatest Hamlet...
America will have truly reached the age of enlightenment when Representative Geraldine Ferraro runs against Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole for President...
...Americans so apprehensive about a woman Vice President? The golden eras of England's history were under two women: Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, who reigned over the largest empire the world has ever known...
...about the English colony that was established on Roanoke Island 22 years before the Jamestown folk first sailed into Chesapeake Bay and 35 years before the Mayflower put in at Plymouth. In 1584 Walter Raleigh's agents landed here; the environs were named Virginia, after the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth, who chose the name. The next year Raleigh sent out the first colonizers, all men. Sir Richard Grenville was heavily involved; Sir Francis Drake paid a call. In 1587 a second group was dispatched, this one including women and children. They baptized an Indian named Manteo (Manteo is the name...
...however, and after near oblivion, Inge is being rediscovered: last week the Roundabout Theater in New York City mounted a powerful Come Back, Little Sheba, the first major Manhattan production since its premiere. The Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Mass., is currently staging A Loss of Roses with Elizabeth Franz and Shaun Cassidy. A musical version of Bus Stop and a West Coast stage revival of Picnic are pending, and Washington Post Drama Critic David Richards is writing an Inge biography...