Word: princess
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...land of great diversity, where 21 different languages are spoken, and that’s not even counting the dialects! One year I wore one of my Indian outfits as a Halloween costume, easily convincing my neighbors that I was meant to be dressed as an Indian princess. And every time my friends would request that I place the table’s order when we went out for Indian food, I couldn’t help but enjoy doing so with the assumed confidence of a native...
...world's wit were rolled into one portly fellow. PETER USTINOV, who died last week at 82, once boasted, "I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins" (his great-grandfather wedded the Princess of Ethiopia). He spoke six languages, and a few others of his own comic invention. With gifts too wide-ranging to be contained in one art form, he wrote hit plays (Romanoff and Juliet) and books of nonfiction and short stories. He could be an excellent film director (Billy Budd) and a serious Shakespearean (King Lear at Stratford, Ont.). He won Supporting...
Ousmane Sembene’s 1977 film was banned in his home country on a wacky technicality, but the history only adds to the allure of Senegal’s most famous auteur’s most ambitious flick. Seemingly, the kidnapping of a beautiful princess is the centerpiece, but that is just the lens through which he address some of Senegal’s most pressing issues: Muslim expansion, Christianity and the slave trade. The title comes from the name for the common lower class, and the sweeping scope of this study envelops their desperate desire for the possibility...
...girls-kick-ass culture of just a few years ago (Charlie's Angels, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) in which a 360° flying-roundhouse kick was a girl's best friend. (On the proto girl-power cartoon, Powerpuff Girls, one of the heroines' worst enemies was a spoiled brat named Princess Morbucks.) But brush off the fairy dust, and you find a new kind of Cinderella, one who would rather save Prince Charming, thank you, and who has learned the lessons of feminism--or at least learned to pay lip service to them. You can have the girly dream of glass...
...DIED. PRINCESS JULIANA, 94, revered Queen of the Netherlands for 32 years; in Baarn, the Netherlands. Shy and informal--she liked to ride her bicycle in a simple flowered frock--she asked in her 1948 inaugural address, "Who am I that I may do this?" But shortly after taking the throne, she recognized the independence of Indonesia, ending 346 years of colonial rule, and she later helped guide her country through the social upheavals of the 1960s. Juliana's popularity helped the monarchy weather political storms when her husband was accused of accepting payoffs in 1976. Four years later...