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...SEVERAL QUEENS of the legendary Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II (1290-1223 B.C.), none outshone Nefertari. She was Ramses' favorite wife, and by all accounts his loveliest. For her death, Ramses commissioned a subterranean tomb in the Valley of the Queens near Thebes, where she was portrayed in lustrous wall paintings by the leading artists of the kingdom...
Phnom Penh, once the loveliest capital in Southeast Asia, looks dusty and exhausted after years of war and atrocities, but it is beginning to regain some of its old spirit. Rice and other foodstuffs are fairly plentiful again in the large central market, as are Heineken beer, gold jewelry and Casio calculators. Prices tend to fluctuate with rumors of peace. But, says Le Hor, a proprietor at one of the market's stalls, "here we are relatively safe and don't think the Khmer Rouge are dangerous." Then he adds, "I'm not sure they feel so confident...
...Bertolucci said on Oscar night, "then Hollywood is the Big Nipple." He meant that American movies have nurtured filmmakers worldwide, even those who view it with reservations. The director always had a Hollywood-size appetite for the epic, with Gone With the Wind as the main course. His tidiest, loveliest film, The Spider's Stratagem (1970), is set in an Italian town called Tara; his most ambitious work, 1900 (1976), is a folk epic spanning 70 years of Italian history -- a Gone With the Wind gone red. Red ink too: the film, cut from 5 1/2 to 4 hours, sank...
Other changes may be in store for the loveliest of the winter sports. In May the International Skating Union will meet to decide what, if anything, to do about compulsory figures. Some skaters and officials argue that figures are tedious to perform and consume practice time that could be better devoted to freestyle skating. Critics would like to see the figures count for less than 30% of the final mark, or perhaps even dropped. Others counter that trying to skate without mastering figures is like trying to write without learning the alphabet...
...loveliest Olympic sport, figure skating, actually preceded the first Winter Games by 16 years, debuting in the summer of 1908. Attention quickly centered on the women (skating people prefer you to say ladies), though dimpled Sonja Henie was just 15 in 1928 when she won the first of three gold medals that launched her multimillion-dollar movie career. In at least two respects, the blond Norwegian starlet of Sun Valley Serenade is still the ideal. East Germany's Katarina Witt, reigning world and Olympic champion, is ( studying to be an actress. And U.S. Challenger Debi Thomas, Witt's primary competition...