Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grew up in high style and later cruised to stardom with an ease that seemed to suggest pre-destiny. Then after establishing herself as the screen's most-celebrated star, she quit the movies and married a real-life prince, in the tiny, prosperous principality of Monaco. She was America's first princess, and the closest thing to royalty our country ever had. For most of her life, Grace Kelly's feet never touched the ground. So when she suffered a stroke last week that not only ravaged her brain but resulted in a car crash that mangled her body...
...finer things in life. She represented not an effort to fill humanity's basic needs, but instead, like a fine painting or symphony, she represented the possibilities of life once those basic needs have been met. When she died, the world was saddened, and in the little principality of Monaco the casino stopped running, shops closed down and the people mourned the passing of their princess...
...IVISITED MONACO during happier times, on the last day of June this summer. The city of Monte Carlo was just gearing up for another prosperous summer of tourism and gambling. When my friend and I stepped off the train in Monaco (30 minutes away from our hotel in Nice, France) I was immediately reminded of what Ernest Hemingway once wrote of Switzerland: "A small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways." Closely packed high-rise apartment buildings and hotels dot the sunbaked hills of Monte Carlo, creating an atmosphere that is a dazzling and claustrophobic. We labored...
...perhaps the most beautiful ride I have ever taken, along winding mountain roads and through tunnels carved into the hills. All around us and below, the lights of Monaco sparkled on in the early morning darkness, like so many precious stones in the folds of a rich, dark velvet blanket. I thought of the princess, tucked safely away in her palace in this fairy tale land, and I thought of the words "happily ever after...
...Monaco's royal family has remained blasé. After all, "she has known him for about ten years," said a spokesman for the Rainiers somewhat ambiguously, "just as she knows the racing drivers and other tennis players in Monte Carlo...