Word: princess
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...society whose professed virtues were once those of duty, honor and discretion become a place of in-it-for-myself, let-it-all-hang-out emoting? Step forward those two women whose influence, combined - though one suspects they loathed each other - shaped a nation: Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana...
Diana's contribution was just as subversive of the old Britain. In her later life - through the hugs, the tears, the riveting BBC interview of 1995 - and even more in her death, the Princess of Wales turned traditional British values on their head. It was all right to cry! It was bad to suffer in silence, repress your emotions, say, "Steady on, old girl," and generally act in a tight spot like Trevor Howard on the train platform at the end of Brief Encounter. In today's remake, Howard would be bawling like a baby; or - as we now know...
...been men; would have done no more in captivity than suck on a pipe while dressed in a peacoat; would have just muttered, "Hello sir, glad to be back," when released, was not in most ways a better place than the insanely meritocratic, undeferential, deinstitutionalized Britain that Thatcher and Princess Diana unleashed. Every so often, however, Britons should be allowed to look back at that older nation - and mourn its passing...
...lesser seducers, Mr. Goldbury (Roy A. Kimmey ’09) and Lord Dramaleigh (Morris), are just as likeable. Initially frustrated in their efforts to win the absurdly reserved hands of Princess Nekaya (Anna M. Resnick ’09) and Princess Kalyba (Megan M. Savage ’10), Goldbury and Dramaleigh burst into song with “Then I may sing and play.” The reason you should sleep with us, they tell the princesses, is because that’s what any proper English woman would...
Aside from the alarming degree to which Kroop and Miller look alike, their onstage chemistry is nearly perfect. They feed off each other’s jokes. They make each other necessary. And as they both fruitlessly fall for Princess Zara, they come up with some of the show’s funniest moments...