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Updike's Gertrude is a feminist well ahead of her time. "A good woman," she muses, "lay in the bed others had made for her and walked in the shoes others had cobbled." A princess, she must marry the man her father, for dynastic reasons, chooses for her, even though she feels no love for him. She does her duty, becomes a queen, bears an heir, Hamlet, and resigns herself to a life she sees as "a stone passageway with many windows but not one portal leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brush Up Your Shakespeare | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Jones claims the unanticipated Swiss chill prompted her spontaneous purchase. But at a time when the British government is embroiled in a debate over banning fox hunts, the move did not sit well. One newspaper suggested she is beginning to resemble the scorned Sarah Ferguson more than the saintly Princess Diana. Rhys-Jones apologized for her "error in judgment." In the future, perhaps, she should stick to tiaras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 14, 2000 | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

CELEBRITY Princess Stephanie of Monaco BODYGUARD Daniel Ducruet RELATIONSHIP HIGH POINT Married July 1995, after having two children together RELATIONSHIP LOW POINT Divorced in 1996; Ducruet was caught with Miss Bare Breasts of Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 7, 2000 | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

Crystal, who earned a BFA from New York University in 1970, was a substitute teacher in New York, playing comedy clubs in the city. He joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1984, and went on to star in such big screen hits as The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally and City Slickers...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Announces Man and Woman of the Year | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

RECOVERING. CROWN PRINCESS MASAKO, 36, of Japan's imperial family; following surgery after a miscarriage; in Tokyo. The announcement last month of the Princess's pregnancy, which could have resulted in the first direct heir to the throne since 1965, inspired a national media frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

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