Word: lese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wall, m, this is a stickup." With some of the student movement's talent for converting disrespect to symbolic desecration, the occupation forces moved into Kirk's office, smoked his cigars (one student with his feet perched on Kirk's desk, an act of smirking and virtually Oedipal lese majeste -- O.K., Dad, whatcha gonna do about it, huh?) and, after six days of occupation, left the place a mess...
That almost bumptious sense of lese majeste had been established at the outset of the courtship. Though the couple first met on a polo field when both of them were four, their romance was sparked not by a sudden glance or even a heartfelt declaration but, well, by a profiterole actually. The cupid's confection came into play at Ascot last year, when a boisterous Andrew put his arm around Fergie and tried to stuff the cream-filled cake into her mouth. The girl who last week vowed to obey him winged the pastry back at his royal person...
...PRODUCTION of theatrical lese majeste par excellence, this Taming of the Shrew is rich in intelligence and little strokes of genius, and wildly short of a unifying vision. The key dichotomy is between the feminist intent and the burlesque setting. Burlesque and Shakespearean comedy are close in many ways, and sometimes the technical devices have been successfully transplanted. But the spirit of burlesque is completely antithetical to McDonough's tragicomic conception of the Shakespeare work...
...lucky he chose this time to leave now that our observation is on a lese hefty stage," he said adding. If is had been December or January there would have been a real crists...
While the tentative skirmishing continued around Port Stanley, the 3,500 troops of the Fifth Infantry Brigade began to make their moves ashore. The brigade, composed of the Scots and Welsh Guards and a battalion of the legendary Nepa-lese-born Gurkhas, landed at the Port San Carlos beachhead two weeks ago. The Gurkhas were assigned the task of mopping up pockets of Argentine resistance that were bypassed by Britain's fast-moving Parachute Regiment as it raced toward Goose Green and Port Stanley. Daily, after a ritual unsheathing of their curved kukris, they flew out in Scout helicopters...