Word: princess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. Though the tone of the movie was reverential, the producers had met endless difficulties in making it, including expulsion of the film crew from Morocco. In 1980 Saudi Arabia vehemently protested a British-American TV "drama documentary" called Death of a Princess, which told the story of the 1977 executions of a young married Saudi princess and her lover. Some Muslims have even objected to Children of Gebelawi, a 30-year-old allegorical novel based on the development of the world's great religions, by Egypt's 1988 Nobel laureate, Naguib Mahfouz...
...great show-biz tunes and turns, Bert finally rebels against this demeaning chicanery. The reward for his pains: a trip to Hollywood and a chance to discover that its streets are paved with poseurs, among whom lurks a comically glorious Anne Bancroft, playing a randy Beverly Hills princess...
...Western-style toilet outside the home. For ladies who do not want to waste water but wish to maintain decorum -- according to TOTO's investigations, women flush an average of 2.5 times per visit to drown out potentially embarrassing or offensive noises -- there is the Oto Hime (Sound Princess), which plays a recording of flushing water. "We want to change the toilet from a space that one wants to do without to a space where one can relax," says Fujita spokesman Kazuyuki Kume...
...Stein's production of Falstaff, with which the celebrated Welsh National Opera was making its American debut. But the applause that swept the amiably musty BAM theater was not just for Stein. Nor just for Donald Maxwell's passionate performance as Sir John. Nor even just for the smiling Princess of Wales, Princess Di herself, who appeared in a glowing white satin dress for the black-tie benefit. Also to be applauded and celebrated was the start of a new kind of opera season in a place where opera has been something of a rarity...
PEOPLE: Regal welcome for a working Princess...