Word: princess
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Showing off their real talent--for publicity--the Sex Pistols announced a reunion tour last week, complete with shameless p.r. stunts like an offer to hold a benefit concert for Princess Di. A bit too wrinkled to carry off anarchic rage these days, the Pistols nevertheless do a good impression of greed. "We don't see eye to eye," says Johnny Rotten of his band members. "But we have a common interest: your money...
...fast-food chain can take only so much agita. After watching the first of DANA CARVEY's comedy shows, the folks at Taco Bell, a division of Pepsi, decided not to sponsor any more. On The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show, dancing tacos hailed Carvey as "our whore," and Princess Di was called a slut (twice). Hardly shocking for Carvey's regular audience, but this was prime time. Pizza Hut, another unit of Pepsi in line for top billing, also got cold feet. But the show drew big ratings, and ABC said it would be reined...
...Xerxes, who is also in search of love, chooses Romilda to be his bride. The matter is complicated by the appearance of Atalanta (Susannah Waters), Romilda's sister, who also loves Arsamene, and Amastre (Kitt Reuter-Foss), a princess--although she appears disguised as a man--that Xerxes had promised to marry...
...What I'd like to see are two courts, as we did under the Prince of Wales and Caroline [in the early 1800s], with the Whigs attending on the Princess of Wales and the Tories perhaps attending on the Prince of Wales. [That's a] way of keeping the monarchy alive. Otherwise it will lapse into boredom." AUBERON WAUGH, novelist, editor, the Literary Review...
...Boston in 1947 to see a film of Queen Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Philip. "I was enchanted," she says, "by the eerie slow pace and pomp of the ceremony." Since then Duffy, now a TIME senior writer, has avidly tracked the Windsors, editing three cover-length stories on Princess Diana and writing two more, including this week's report on the royal divorce. Her fascination is less for dynasty than for star quality: "Diana was always eloquent about herself, through body language. She has the concentration of a fine actress." Through all the scandals, Diana has kept mesmerizing...