Word: monarchical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Queen Elizabeth (Quentin Crisp) deeds a great English manor to handsome young Lord Orlando (Tilda Swinton) on one condition: "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old." The lad takes the monarch's admonition to heart and, miraculously, ages not at all from that day to this. Orlando is a fellow in love with love -- ever eager to die upon a kiss, but destined to live forever apart from those mortals he cherishes. In 1610 he falls for a fickle Russian princess (Charlotte Valandrey). One day, a century and a half later, he wakes...
Ireland's President, Mary Robinson, had a private tea with Queen Elizabeth. It's the first time an Irish chief of state has met with a British monarch since the founding of the Republic of Ireland...
...work that Cuno highlights in the exhibit is Philipon's "Sketches Made in Court of November 14, 1831." The Pairs court tried the artist for creating a caricature that offended the king. Philipon claimed that since he had not named the king, any resemblance to the monarch was a coincidence. To illustrate this point, the artist drew four images before the court: the king, a pear with the king's hair and features, and a pear with only a suggestion of human features. Philipon argued that if the fourth image looked like the first, it was simply a coincidence...
After church, Mobutu joins guests for a flute of his favorite pink Laurent Perrier champagne at the nearby presidential palace. Like an amiable monarch amid courtiers, he bows gracefully to kiss a woman's hand and banters politely with a local Jesuit priest before herding everyone across an immense terrace toward a buffet laden with lobster and thick steaks. In the 100 degrees heat, a wave of satisfaction seems to envelop the presidential party, a sense that all is still well in this remote hinterland far from the chaos afflicting the rest of the country...
...sooty grain that reminds one of late Goya. Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby like a teddy bear. The monarch, who was shortly to abdicate, looks remarkably wan and shifty, and it's hard not to imagine that in this picture the Servant of Abraham was granted a moment of prophecy...