Word: queen
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...same as that of the classic play: four star-crossed lovers run away to a forest inhabited by fairies. Thanks to the Fairy King's mischevious helper Puck, the mortal lovers become even more discombobulated and frantic until the deux-es-machina ending. Meanwhile, the Fairy King squabbles with Queen Titania over custody of their child until Puck's spell causes the queen to temporarily fall in love with Bottom the Ass, a man with the head of a donkey. Once all the confusion subsides, however, a very happy ending ensues...
...wimpy after the Cuban MiG's shot down two planes." The most controversial portions of Helms-Burton would bar shareholders, officers and any others connected with a foreign company that makes use of property expropriated by the Cuban government from entering into the U.S. "Under such a provision, the Queen of England, who owns shares of a company that does business in Cuba, would not be able to come to the U.S.," says McAllister. The measure will also allow U.S. citizens, whose property was seized, even if they were Cuban citizens at the time of seizure...
...endings--there must be six or seven of them, all superfluous to the main plot), the film has become a rosy yet pale dreamscape of real workaday life. It's like the Windsong commercial on the nightly news, between the Bosnia coverage and the story about the beauty queen who found...
...virtually done, but a spokesman for the crown said nothing, including any financial settlement, would be finalized for some time. Diana had declared that she did not want to end the marriage, but after she gave a very public airing of very private laundry in a December television interview, Queen Elizabeth turned up the pressure and called on the couple to divorce. TIME's London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand reports that Diana seems very saddened by her decision. "She's holed up in Kensington Palace and canceled her appearance at this fantastic party, the 125th anniversary of the Red Cross...
DIED. BRODRICK HALDANE, 83, photographer whose status as a member of high society (Scottish son of the 26th Laird of Gleneagles) helped him capture classic images of the famous (Dietrich, Chaplin) and the powerful (President Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth); in Edinburgh. DIED. RUSSELL COLLEY, 97, dubbed the "father of the spacesuit," who designed the 1961 extraterrestrial fashion statement worn by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in America's first step starward; in Springfield, Ohio...