Word: princess
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Often referred to as the “master of the mic,” King is known for the softball questions he throws his guests, a diverse set of celebrities, world leaders, and outcasts, including Princess Diana, Frank Sinatra and Yassar Arafat...
...after reaching the summit. "The next moment I was with them: handshakes - even, I blush to say, hugs - for the triumphant pair." Between that "I blush to say, hugs" and our own age of overemoting, lip-chewing Presidents and Prime Ministers, of nations weeping at the death of a princess or a Kennedy, of private joy and grief turned into public spectacle, there is a yawning gap not just of time but of sensibility...
...Princess and the Pea will be performed in the Radcliffe Yard Sunken Garden at 4 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, 12 and 1 p.m. on Saturday and 2 and 3 p.m. on Sunday...
...plot goes like this: the queen won’t let the prince get married because she is overprotective, so she sends all suitors away by telling them that their behavior contradicts the “true Princess manual.” But the prince loves Lilybell, the Queen’s lady-in-waiting, so he creates a plan to have her shipped from the castle to the castle in a carton so she can take the princess test...
...Queen tries to test Lilybell by placing a pea under her mattress, but the prince’s servant and rapper, Pea-Ditty, manages to confuse the Queen’s henchmen into putting him under the mattress instead. He wakes the potential princess so she can pass the test, and they all live happily ever after—except for the henchmen, who get fired, and the Queen, who must sleep on the royal couch for some weeks to come...