Word: queen
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...thing the British government wanted at that time was me in London, a security scandal and a sensational trial." He even retained the honor he had been awarded in 1946 -- Order of the British Empire -- for two years after fleeing to Moscow, and his collaborator Anthony Blunt remained the Queen's adviser on art for more than a decade after admitting to treason...
...much carnival as hunt. It begins with a parade down Sweetwater's Broadway (antique cars; the Girl Scouts Troop No. 114 float; the Sweetwater High band; Dr. Michael Dainer, the town ob-gyn, with his Clydesdale and buggy; the Nolan County sheriff's posse) and a beauty-queen contest in which 21 of the town's young women vie for a scholarship prize of $1,000 and the title Miss Snake Charmer...
...British soldiers had driven from their base in West Germany to the Dutch town of Roermond to relax and join the festivities marking the birthday of the Netherlands' Queen Beatrix. But the trip last week turned into a nightmare after a member of the Irish Republican Army opened fire on the soldiers as they sat in their car, killing one and seriously wounding two others. Five minutes later, two British airmen died when a bomb exploded in their auto in nearby Nieuw-Bergen. Two days later, a bomb was found at the British army barracks at Bielefeld, West Germany...
...extravaganza was one of the most extensive estate sales in history and one of the glitziest. Dealers -- British, French, German and Italian, as well as American -- swarmed to it. The event was studded with the celebrities to whom Warhol catered in his life and art, from the King and Queen of Sweden to Bianca Jagger and Dick Cavett. By week's end more than 45,000 collectors and curiosity seekers had milled through Sotheby's showrooms, 10,000 of them on a single day. For some, Warhol's vast collection was a monument to the materialism that the artist enshrined...
Bidding began on Friday for Warhol's collection of more than 75 paintings and drawings, ranging from old masters through French impressionists to Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell (represented by a portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy). A pair of 7 1/2-ft. portraits of Britain's George III and his consort Queen Charlotte went for $40,700. Still higher prices were expected this week in the sale of Warhol's modern and contemporary art acquisitions, although aside from several Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtensteins, Robert Rauschenbergs and the like, experts found this part of his collection far less impressive than might have been...