Word: princess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gymnasts from four republics will never again compete as one, they found it harder to keep their emotions in check. When Gutsu toppled from the balance beam, seemingly dashing her all- around hopes, the team surrounded her. The sight of Svetlana Boginskaya, 19, the team's long-reigning princess, wrapping her arms protectively around the shattered 15-year-old was enough to move even the unsentimental...
...PRINCESS DIANA...
Books on the Prince and Princess of Wales have been a quiet cottage industry since the couple married with fanfare and romance in 1981. Last year, their 10th anniversary, saw a spate of them, prettily illustrated and saying roughly the same thing: it may be an odd marriage, but it works for them. What a difference a year can make. Now there are three new biographies of Diana, all claiming the union is dead, a disaster, a sham. And as usual, woe is what sells. Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story (Simon & Schuster; $22) tops the best-seller lists...
...Fisher (Joan Plowright), a crusty matron, was once an intimate of Ruskin and Rossetti, as she will remind you without prompting. Lady Caroline (Polly Walker) might be a pre-Raphaelite princess, but adrift in the jazz age and bored by the clammy attentions men pay her. The others, Lottie (Josie Lawrence) and Rose (Miranda Richardson), are trussed in marriages that seem more like mergers. Lottie's husband, an attorney, wants her to be a housemaid and party ornament. Rose's husband, a writer, wants her to stay at home, out of his lightly lecherous way, and tend the emptiness...
Which is Lucas' moral. Inside every frog, he suggests, there is a princess held in bondage. Inside every princess is the clock of decay, which ticks remorselessly until she loses her looks, her grace, everything but her love -- you can read that in the eyes. In Peter's eyes too. They course with anger when he feels he has lost Rita; they moisten in awe when he finds his love in a most unexpected place...