Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...100th anniversary of the opening night of his comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's pane joins those dedicated to Alexander Pope and Robert Herrick in the window, which was installed last year above the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer and near the Poets' Corner memorials of Lord Byron and D.H. Lawrence. DRESDEN. In 1709 Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and elector of Saxony, built the ornate Taschenbergpalais as a residence for his favorite mistress. The Baroque palace, later occupied by the Wettin dynasty, was virtually destroyed by Allied bombing raids in 1945. Five decades later, the architectural...
Nigel Hawthorne plays him down and dirty, so loud and rude to start with that it's hard to tell exactly when the madness sets in. And yet, in all his rantings and ravings, George never lets anyone forget he was born a king. "I am the Lord's annointed!" he bellows...
...Lord's annointed, we find, performs like any of God's lesser creations. The color of his urine is the subject of much interest in the film - during his madness, it is as blue as his blood (a symptom of porphyria). George doesn't neglect any of the other bodily functions either. "Saving your presence, I will try a fart," he informs his Lady (Helen Mirren). He is equally uninhibited...
...elegant short stories about -- no, no, stay with him -- Wasp geezers who golf. Now and then, unblocked metaphors rise up shrieking: one duffer is resigned "to a golfing mediocrity that would poke its way down the sloping dogleg of decrepitude to the level green of death." Fore? Sure, but Lord, how that senior citizen can write...
Mayr says one of his responsibilities was organizing Lord Rothschild's collection of 280,000 bird skins, which he calls "the best collection ever...