Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, in his attempt to portray a starstruck artisan, wears a stunned, ox-like expression, and looks at all times like a ballet dancer converted for the occasion. In fact, his wooden absorption with creating the stone flower to the neglect of his unkissed bride and an amorous fairy queen, will for a while make you wonder about him. And Hollywoodisms creep in: the background music continually dictates what mood you must get in for upcoming scenes. And the seeking mind can read Significance into several episodes: someone scored a dialectical coup in presenting a smirking, opulent nobleman who rewards...
...maidens from Goa, bandannaed islanders from Timor, and tribesmen from Dom Pedro's own Angola watched devoutly. The old King had put on a swallow-tailed coat and extra wide trousers. His moustachios gleamed stark and white as he mounted the steps to the throne followed by his Queen, Isabella. His eyes were downcast and glued to his outturned feet for fear he might trip on his trousers. When at last he stood at the top, the crowd applauded. Pedro started to prostrate himself to kiss the Pope's slipper, but Pius, quicker than...
...White during the wild, playful childhood of the movies (roughly 1910 to 1920). It is also a new, bright-colored, strident biocomedy about the late Miss White, starring Betty Hutton. Betty starts as a sweatshop girl, moves on to become a dumb theatrical trouper, bursts into bloom as the queen of silent serials, and fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents her screen success; in the last scene, after a crippling fall, it is implied that...
Anna's influence had all but disappeared. From Dentist Eskelund, who became "royal tooth puller" to the court, the Queen demanded a set of false teeth-black, because she chewed betel. But when he commanded her to "open the royal mouth" she refused, finally consented with the understanding that he would not raise his head above her own. Crouching, the young Dane maneuvered his tools into the "foul interior" of her mouth, stood clear while she spat betel juice into a golden spittoon. When it was over, she asked him about his love affairs. He replied by recounting some...
...highlights of the show were not the souvenirs nor the Queen's tureens. Poking about an auctioneer's office in Chelsea, Art Dealer Sidney Sabin had found a dusty, amazingly expert canvas of Christ crowned with thorns. He cleaned it up, found it to be a genuine Van Dyck, and happily toted it to the Fair...