Word: princess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wedding that Britain is preparing for, albeit with a slight reversal of roles. At Westminster Abbey this Wednesday, with suitable pomp and ceremony, Prince Andrew of the House of Windsor weds his commoner (but uncommon) love, Sarah Ferguson. But near Hyannis Port, Mass., last Saturday, the bride was the Princess of Camelot when Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, 28, daughter of President John F. Kennedy and former First Lady Jacqueline Onassis, was married to the very un-Kennedyesque Edwin Arthur Schlossberg, 13 years her senior...
...hostages. The kidnapers of the nuns quickly cut the price of the ransom to $5,000 and then, six days after the abduction, released them. The government says no ransom was paid, but others say the kidnapers netted at least $10,000. The following day, Lawrence was freed. Princess Tarhata Alonto Lucman, the head of an important Muslim family, helped arrange his release...
...thoroughly modern Sarah Ferguson, fiancee of Britain's Prince Andrew, may not be so modern after all. The princess-to-be has chosen a traditional 1662 marriage rite for her wedding on July 23. While Sarah's close friend Diana, Princess of Wales, promised in 1981 to "love, honor and keep" (but not obey) her husband Prince Charles, Sarah will swear to "obey" not once but twice during the service...
...Kennedy Space Center and on Mars. This approach, however, amounts to apologizing for the libretto. A better way is to insist on fidelity to both spirit and source. The trick is to get the audience to suspend its disbelief and to care as passionately about the amours of Sappho, Princess Iphise and the god Mercury...
...Retailer Linda Stuart started a Los Angeles firm offering advice at an average $1,500 a pop on how to get the shebang together, and their consulting business is booming. "It's part of the whole yuppie thing," Blackburn thinks. "Going back to tradition. The Reagan Administration. The economy. Princess Di and Prince Charles...