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...keep the audience interested, even when the verbal dueling gets ridiculously complex. The script is also full of vicious one-liners. When the nubile and conniving Chloe is rejected by her would-be prey, another character remarks: "I wouldn't worry about Chloe. She's old enough to float on her back...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Asexual British Scholars Run Wild in Stoppard's Uber-Witty 'Arcadia' | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...blast will fade into the background and life will return to normal. Memorials will be held, bodies will eventually float to the surface and relatives will bury their dead. For now, all that remains are the quiet whispers of the waves, lapping up against the shore...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: A Postmortem on the TWA Crash | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...statesmen and men of letters it has turned out. The students there acquire an elegance and gloss. Sue Townsend, author of the satirical The Queen and I and no monarchist, says, "William has that Etonian look already. The boys are burnished; they are like angels, you know, and they float around the world." It is likely that during his five years there, Wills won't have too much time to think about his battling parents. His day is a strict drill. Up at 8, compulsory chapel after breakfast, classes all morning. A lengthy sports session follows, and afternoon classes start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES WILLS | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...million in cash, and a lease on her posh digs at Kensington Palace. Still on the table: hanging on to the title Her Royal Highness. And for Charles? The Prince keeps his right to the throne and gets time with Camilla Parker Bowles. But he may have to float a loan for the princely Diana payout: he makes only $7.5 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 15, 1996 | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

...happily self-satisfied conclusions. In the end, she isn't angry at the power of beauty, and she seems to have come to terms with her own. After all, it certainly is a positive wish that every woman, from stooping adolescent to middle-aged overachiever, have a chance to float in a foam-green Pucci. If it fits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CONFRONTING THE BEAUTY MYSTIQUE | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

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