Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth approached New York Harbor with a captured Nazi flag flying at her main mast, an effect achieved by laughing, shouting soldiers. Manhattan's excitable garment workers threw tons of paper and cloth shreds into the streets...
...vanished Danish empire), parties were held in celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...
National Velvet (M.G.M.). Throughout her childhood, horses so deeply excited Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor) that merely to look at them was ecstasy. She lost her heart to one at twelve, when she first saw a neighbor's fierce new gelding running majestically through a meadow. Without quite realizing it, she also lost her heart to her companion that memorable day, a hard little tramp of 17 (Mickey Rooney), He stayed on in the village to work in her father's butcher shop...
National Velvet is not merely sure to delight children and the child in most adults; it is also an interesting psychological study of hysterical obsession, conversion mania, preadolescent sexuality. Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, a beautiful little girl who has hitherto had minor roles in Lassie Come Home, Jane Eyre, etc., is probably the only person in Hollywood who could bring to this curious role its unusual combination of earthiness and ecstasy...
...Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where much of the once mighty American steel industry lies rusting, Business School Dean Elizabeth Bailey, 44, had barely moved into her office before she began looking for ways to stress real business problems instead of mathematical models. Says she: "We want to find practical uses for the models. We don't just want ideas. We want ways to fit those ideas to current industry problems." Bailey also plans to enhance Carnegie-Mellon's program in robotics in order to prepare students for the factory of the future. A member of the Civil...