Word: groomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sarah did indeed reign at court as Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes, Keeper of the Privy Purse. Soon, Arnie's entourage swarmed with Sarah's relations, including cousin Abigail Hill, a penniless gentlewoman who had sunk to the role of "dust broom" (as Sarah put it) to a titled lady. What happened next seems, as Author Kronenberger says, "too much in the flashy traditions of the theater to have happened in real life." Slowly, week by week, Abigail, the dowdy waif, replaced Sarah as the dowdy Queen's bosom friend-largely because Sarah...
...drinks. At a barked command comes the sound of marching feet and in tramp flag-bearing comrades (male and female) from the parachute group of the paramilitary "Association for Sports and Technology." The orchestra strikes up a Beethoven minuet, and through the lane of parachutists come the bride and groom...
...fine phrases-"class struggle," "power of the party," "workers' glory and honor." The bridal couple pledge themselves to faithful service of "the workers' and peasants' might," everyone sings the East German national anthem, and children recite "socialistic poems." Fellow workers hand over their presents, bride and groom are showered with flowers, the orchestra plays the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, and it's all over...
Married. Robert Motherwell, 43, and Helen Frankenthaler, 29, both abstract expressionist painters; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan. The phrase Je t'aime was featured in the titles of several of the groom's most recently exhibited canvases; e.g., in last year's Whitney annual his entry was called (in translation): I Love...
...doused her hair in sweet lemonade, and before her father, the bridegroom or any of the guests could recover their senses, shaved herself bald-which to good Buddhists signifies the renunciation of all fleshly pleasures and was, therefore, a flaming insult to the groom...