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Word: queene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner had the lady arrived in Recife, Brazil, than she was caught in a tangle of traffic. Then, in the middle of a reception at the Palace of Las Princessas, the lights blew and pitched the whole place into darkness. But Queen Elizabeth II, poised as always, went right on receiving guests while servants held glowing candelabra behind her. It was the first visit ever to South America by a reigning British monarch, and the Queen plans ten days in Brazil, another seven in Chile before returning home. Officially, she is returning a state visit to Britain three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 15, 1968 | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...whose rhetorical sword never gets out of its scabbard. "The sky is pocked with stars," sighs Henry. "Has my willow turned to poison oak?" he inquires of his mistress. At other times, Goldman is an anachronistic historian. "It's 1183, and we're all barbarians," announces the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn). Often Goldman is simply a pig-bladder comedian. After Eleanor announces to Henry that she has slept with his father, the King stumbles angrily from her bedroom. "Well," shrugs Eleanor to the camera, "what family doesn't have its ups and downs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Sovereigns Next Door | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...last summer I took an uptown bus to the Museum of Modern Art. Down in the theater in the cellar I cried it out with Greta Garbo in Queen Christiana. Upstairs I walked through the most beautiful exhibit of photographs I have ever seen and finally, I found myself by the pool in the museum garden. It was dark and warm and Buddy Guy was playing. Close and sad at first, then wild and glad...

Author: By Betsy Nadas, | Title: Cartier-Bresson | 11/5/1968 | See Source »

...expected to spend much of each year in New York City and aboard the Christina, but Ari obviously will still be spending a good deal of time in Greece. And Jackie will remain what she became last week by virtue of her marriage to the lord of Skorpios-queen of one of Europe's last truly moneyed courts, even if it is an untitled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 1, 1968 | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Cultural traditions die hard in history-conscious China. But they do die, as devotees of the highly stylized form of music drama called Peking opera are beginning to learn. The death is especially painful when the executioner is China's cultural queen, Chiang Ching, the wife of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Insipid Water Torture | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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