Word: princess
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...PRINCESS DIANA INTERVIEW (ABC) With a composed fragility, the Princess of Wales yanked the royal family into the age of public confession. Her disclosures--that her marriage was a shambles, that she had suffered from bulimia--weren't shocking. But her doe-eye candor was. Some found it calculated, but most viewers opened their hearts to the world's most famous victim...
...that Queen Elizabeth II has asked Prince Charles to divorce Princess Di, he is saying that he does not intend to marry again. The news ends speculation that Charles would marry his longtime paramour, Camilla Parker Bowles. The divorce looks to be as simple as the wedding was grand. Under British law, when there are grounds for divorce (and there are), and both people agree to go ahead with it, the couple has only to fill out the legal papers and pay a $60 fee. After a six week waiting period, the marriage is terminated...
...that Queen Elizabeth II has asked Prince Charles to divorce Princess Di, he is saying that he does not intend to marry again. The news ends speculation that Charles would marry his longtime paramour, Camilla Parker Bowles. The divorce looks to be as simple as the wedding was grand. Under British law, when there are grounds for divorce (and there are), and both people agree to go ahead with it, the couple has only to fill out the legal papers and pay a $60 fee. After a six week waiting period, the marriage is terminated...
...among hundreds of female volunteers in a kind of genetic Bake-Off--with the throne then being awarded to the most boring and phlegmatic child that resulted. The next step would be to take away the royals' allowances, which amount to $15 million a year for the lot. Princess Di, for example, likes visiting the sick, and she'd undoubtedly feel a whole lot better about herself if she had a job as a nurse's aide...
Brancusi gave bronze a new dimension by bringing it to a mirror shine, as in the Birds or the golden curves and lobes of Princess X, the sculpture whose supposedly phallic qualities caused such a foofaraw in Paris in 1920. (It would always infuriate Brancusi that Princess X was interpreted as a penis and testicles rather than a woman's head, neck and breasts, but of course the sculpture is richer for its double meaning.) Because his work was deeply influenced by classical Indian and Khmer sculpture, it may be that the Eastern practice of gilding the effigy...