Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spur-of-the-moment socializing. Just nine days before his 16th birthday, Prince William, en route from boarding school to the movies with friends, called his father to tell him he'd be stopping home for a change of clothes. Prince Charles asked his son if he would not mind spending a few moments with a houseguest, one the boy had never met before--Charles' mistress of 26 years, Camilla Parker Bowles...
Inspired by Athenian ruins, the stately arches and ivy covered walls of the Harvard Stadium call to mind the noble Greek virtues of balance and order...
...magazine, will take over when Brown leaves Aug. 1 (to start a new multimedia venture with Miramax). Remnick said his top priority will be "to edit a magazine of hilarity, deep reporting, literary quality and moral seriousness." He wouldn't discuss any specific changes he may have in mind for the magazine, or his contract...
...that it was tear gas rather than a nerve gas. "It burned like CS [tear gas] in the eyes; my throat felt like CS; and my skin felt like CS," he said. "CS is like a skunk--once you are exposed to it, there is no question in your mind what it is... I saw no single human being displaying any of the symptoms described for any type of toxic nerve agent...
They make a strange menagerie, the Hal Hartley clan. The people in his odd, alert comedies (Trust, Amateur, Flirt) inhabit some Long Island of the mind, where Amy Fisher-style melodrama rubs up against working-class angst. They are part strong, silent types, part East Coast neurotics. They revel in their own contradictions; one Hartley heroine, a nymphomaniac virgin, explains the anomaly by saying, "I'm choosy." His creatures will sit mute and mopey, then turn endlessly articulate once they get going. Self-conscious but not self-aware, skeptical yet wildly romantic, they have a horror of the personal commitment...