Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly anyone ever mentions that anymore. "It is clear to me that the question of abdication has been ruled out totally," says Lacey. "Charles may be unhappy in his role, but it is the function of the British royal family to express the intangibles of life, including stability. Since modern British monarchs have no executive role, the sovereign has reverted back to the primitive and magical role, symbolic of society's continuing...
...Augustan Whigs, adored by the whole inferior creation from their wives to their dogs and filling their rotundas with the works of Claude and Praxiteles. Surely by now an American museum can admit that a few of these paragons were educated brutes with Titians, like a few of their modern counterparts? Or that their ideology of cultural property was underwritten by their power to hang men for poaching a stag or breaking down an ornamental shrub? Or even that England, particularly from the Civil War to the rural riots of the 1830s, was by no means the serene garden...
...business. Yes, Diana is charming, and at 24 she has become stunningly self-assured. But she will not be sharing palace confidences with her dinner companions nor making anything but the politest prattle ("The salmon is awfully good, don't you think?"). Charles and Diana are world-class illusionists, modern masters of the deflective gesture, hinting at intimacy while keeping their distance...
...bought these toasters? Probably the same person who approved the Canaday design plans. Canaday and Harvard toasters share that elusive "I looked ultra-modern in 1971" quality, although the toasters can occassionally take on a '57 Edsel appearance to particularly hungover toasting enthusiasts...
...there at all of the action filled moments, the battle, the politicking, and the arguing. His device of constantly returning to an imagined panel of historical researchers drawn from prominent Texans slows down the narration, and it can be skipped without historical loss, but as a view of modern Texas it will be considered a priceless gem when historians look back at the present from a time years in the future when Texas is little different from New York...