Word: joustings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witness this issue's special People coverage of the charity knockout joust held by Britain's royal family, in which the Windsor children displayed a decidedly unstately yen for slapstick. As is often the case, eye-catching photography was crucial to the choice of the subject. "The strength of a picture will often make or break an item," says Picture Researcher MaryAnne Golon. "We want the usual suspects doing unusual things...
...high-tech weapons, just Middle Ages state- of-the-art horse and armor. Still, in her screen debut, Deborah Leigh Moore felt a definite kinship with the dapper 007 portrayed by her dad Roger Moore. "I fight the Tafurs and the Saracens with sword and dagger, and I joust in tournaments with a lance on horseback," says Deborah, who has just been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries removed, that is. Moore, 22, plays Mathilda...
Traditionally, Harvard teams have had to joust with rabid opponents for whom the Harvard game is The Game. And Harvard, for the most part, doesn't care...
...upsets President Reagan on November 6, the first Presidential debate will linger in historical memory as a turning point, one of those trail markers that describe the swerving course of any campaign. But history--and probably the average voter--are almost certain to forget last Thursday's dainty joust between Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-Queens) and Vice-President George Bush...
Pells. 50 percent entitlements, SEOGs, CWS, GSLs, NDSLs, ACHE, ACE, SSIG, TRIO--this is the language of education politics, where dozens of lobbying groups joust with congressmen and senators over arcane details of entitlement programs, loan programs, and qualification ceilings...