Word: queen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into star gazing, you've come to the right place. Just don't let it go to your head when you pass, say, the King and Queen of Spain, as you head across the Yard for Chem 10 lecture...
...troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends are also conspicuously memorable: a former beauty queen who writes film scripts, the grandson of a Jewish store owner who becomes a Hollywood big shot, and a former hippie turned Trappist monk...
...native Queen, N.Y., Fenster graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1963. Upon graduation, he studied econometrics and economic policy for a year on a Fulbright scholarship in the Netherlands...
...manages to appear beautifully, brainlessly exultant in the final scene, with fencing foil in hand-savoring a duel that he considers mere sport but that will bring his world crashing down. Throughout, he is marvelously complemented by Francesca Annis in the role of his mother. She gives us a queen who is convincing at each downward turn in her trajectory: as a figure of brittle jubilation when celebrating her "o'erhasty marriage" to her late husband's brother; as a sinner afflicted with a harelike trembling when confronted with Polonius' death and the "black and grained spots" of her soul...
...office on the first floor of the Union Buildings earlier than most of his staff. A little after 7 a.m., Mary Mxadana, the secretary whom Mandela refers to as "my boss," brings in newspapers and a stack of correspondence (among the letters is a handwritten note from Queen Elizabeth II thanking Mandela for hosting a royal visit the previous month). Mandela reads five papers each morning, with obvious enjoyment and unflappable absorption. Finishing an article, he executes an unhurried turn of the page followed by a crisp fold and a snap...