Word: lord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Juliet (Kristen Gasser) does fine when alone, but tends to pale when appearing on stage with the Nurse (Caroline Bicks) or with her father, Lord Capulet (Christian Kanuth...
Britain's Lord Carrington, the secretary-general of NATO, said yesterday, "I don't think the United States can sit back and allow this sort of terrorism without taking some sort of retaliatory action...
...bringing dignity to mediocrity. Although a contemporary and a rightful companion of the great British actors of this century, no one ever seems to mention Sir Alec in their company. Certainly he doesn't lack exposure-Guinness made more films than any of them with the exception of Lord Lawrence Olivier, who these days will take any part that doesn't require him to move much--but his unique talents by their very nature doom him to relative obscurity...
...before his heir was born. Author Bertie Denham, 58, who has written one previous mystery (The Man Who Lost His Shadow), creates pungent characters and evokes subtle parallels between the superficially different Britains of father and son. The novel's special pleasure is its setting in the House of Lords, a political institution that has rarely been explored in modern fiction. Denham is in fact Lord Denham, a hereditary peer (one of his titles was created in 1660) and the Tory Whip. He writes with shrewd and skewering knowledge of the mores of his moss-bound haunts but loyally sees...
...different explanation is offered for the infrequency of Will's appearances. William Lord, who produces World News Tonight, argues that ABC has become the "major event" network, going all out on the biggest stories, as opposed to that other network (CBS), which gives you "all that day's news." If the event is sufficiently major, Lord says, Will might be asked if he wants to do a commentary. But to Will this is not the best use of him: "You don't deliver what you were hired for, a lot of surprises." As a newspaper columnist, Will deliberately writes...