Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Princess Anne can be an absolute darling, but "she has imperious moods when that pendulous Windsor lower lip droops and the arrogance of centuries emerges." Her Royal Highness was taking a drubbing from Punch, the British humor magazine, which wished she would let go with a "bit of divilment." As it is, Anne shares a chilling trait with Elizabeth: "She has her mother's look, which can freeze at 20 paces...
Nureyev's choreography differs chiefly in its shift of emphasis from princess to prince. Other first-class productions that have been performed in Europe for the past 50 years have hinged on Princess Aurora while Prince Florimund never danced at all. In this production Nureyev's prince has half a dozen solos. They are uniformly pleasant-if unaccountably confined to traditional danse d'école figures and Nureyev executes them to glacéed perfection...
...Margaret's equation, the sense of belonging she dearly wants never quite equals the sense of freedom she absolutely needs. And so she ends up a poor little princess in the kingdom of transients: California, a land of real estate agents in fake Spanish haciendas, freeways choked with white Lincolns and plum Mercedes, and always and everywhere the fugitive smell of eucalyptus...
...Boston. In recent years, only George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra have approached the august virtuosity, combustible power and quartet-like intimacy that Solti has established with the Chicago Symphony The advent of Solti in Chicago, as he himself puts it with characteristic bluntness, "was like awakening the sleeping princess." At age 60, Solti may be forgiven for depicting himself as Prince Charming for the simple reason that almost everyone agrees with...
Convict Jarvis Chuff, a brainy, pacific and proletarian train robber, finds himself mysteriously sprung from the nick. His benefactors turn out to be a wealthy singer turned princess by marriage, a Church of England vicar, an ancient British major with a limp and a svelte, pneumatic upper-class bird named Philomela. Chuff (homonym for Chough, the acquisitive European jackdaw) is given the angelic name of Gabriel and soon put to work with Philomela (namesake of the poor lady who had her tongue cut out and was turned into a nightingale). Clad in dark cat suits, they pull off various nocturnal...