Word: princess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dawn of a major British industry: the pursuit and glorification of the Princess of Wales. Last week it reached its apogee with the publication in the Sunday Times of excerpts from a forthcoming book alleging that the prince had all but deserted his wife and that the despairing princess had tried to kill herself. Diana: Her True Story, by royals watcher Andrew Morton, is big business. The Sunday Times paid $462,500 for its excerpts...
...same day that Warmus learned her fate, an appellate court in Wisconsin upheld the murder conviction of a former beauty queen who is already serving a life sentence for killing her ex-boyfriend's fiance. Lori Esker, erstwhile Marathon County Dairy Princess, became wildly jealous when she discovered that her prince, a local farmer, had decided to take up permanent residence with on-again, off-again girlfriend Lisa Cihaski. Esker strangled Cihaski in September 1989, leaving her body to be found in a parked...
...customers, like Sophia Loren, the Duchess of Windsor (who, he said, had perfect feet) and Ava Gardner. He was an artist for hire who worked for the new royalty of the 20th century: movie stars and socialites. Such clients tested his ingenuity. To fulfill the request of an Indian princess, he once fabricated a shoe of hummingbird feathers. But Ferragamo asserted that he was designing shoes not for the personality of the customer but the personality of the age. James Laver, the influential English fashion theorist, wrote that all significant fashion shares three qualities: utility, status and seductiveness. Ferragamo...
...Gates says while "[p]eople often like to represent the high canonical texts as the reading matter of the power elite," it's not that simple. Can you imagine Vice President Dan Quayle 'leafing through the Princess Cassimassima"? Gates can't either...
Tree F. Loong '94, co-chair of the council's social committee, said the evening barbecue at the Quad will be held from 5 p.m. on, and that the council will show cartoons outdoors during the meal. Afterwards, the movies The Princess Bride and City Slickers will be shown...