Word: liz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of his romance with and marriages to Elizabeth Taylor-the Elizabethan years, as he later called them-he was one of the most celebrated men on the planet. Amplified by the resources of modern media, the lovemaking and the battles of Liz and Dick echoed across oceans. Many critics thought him the greatest Hamlet of the era, and he received seven Academy Award nominations for his parts in such films as Becket, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But his greatest role was the one that both...
Even after they shed their spouses and legalized their union, Liz and Dick were denounced by the pious. Everywhere they went the paparazzi trailed behind; following their soap-opera romance became almost a necessary diversion for a world wearied by wars and assassinations. The pair made millions and spent millions, traveling with an entourage that would pauper a Saudi prince, taking over entire floors of famous hotels. Like Henry VIII, a part he played with gusto in Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond...
...been times when the lure of the zeros was simply too great." It may have been those seductive zeros that reunited him with Taylor last year in a national tour of Noël Coward's Private Lives; each reportedly was paid $70,000 a week. Grotesquely miscast, Liz and Dick endured perhaps their ultimate humiliation...
...years ago, a former professor of economics, Liz Allison, re-examined some Social Analysis 10 (then Ec 10) students to see how much knowledge of the course they had retained a year after they had completed the course. She was pleased that students still knew so much of the analytical method but disappointed that they remembered so little of the nomenclature and had read so little in economics since the course had ended...
...most balanced Harvard offensive display of the year took care of that, as Farley and Blair Wardenburg put the Crimson up, 5-4. A goal from Hart and from Rutgers' Liz Ferrara then set the stage for Farley's last-minute sealer...