Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeply attached to Christina, marveling at her bedrock dignity and pride, enthralled-as perhaps only a painter could be-with the gothic romance of her witchlike features, piercing eyes, and scraggly hair. "To me," he once remarked, "she is the essence of New England-witchcraft. She rules like a queen, absolutely...
When it comes to playing conniving old dames, Judith Anderson is matchless. So Charlton Heston found out in NBC's adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen. Though it is essentially a two-character play, Dame Judith as the queen hissing "Go to Ireland-go to hell" made it a one-woman show. Torn between pride for country and passion for the Earl of Essex (Heston), she played the tug of war with exquisite skill, slowly losing grip and, in the end, turning into a living mummy. Heston, unfortunately, seemed slightly embalmed to begin with...
Dylan has fashioned a new music to sing this enlightenment by, and like the lyrics it differs sharply from his previous songs. Just as a cascading piano was appropriate for "Queen Jane Approximately," so the new record is rightly driven by muted, subtle rhythms and complex interaction. Dylan and his regular drummer, Kenny Buttrey, seem to have developed the sort of perfect understanding that Bart Starr shares with Carroll Dale. In places all over the record, they groove effortlessly, as at the end of John Wesley Harding when Buttrey pumps the shutters, with Dylan wailing on harp...
...African wheeler-dealers whose names read like a roster of fly-by-night used-car salesmen-Grand Trading Man Ben Johnson, Willy Honesty, Yellow Will. But before long, European heads of state were getting their share of the action by way of taxes, if not by direct participation. When Queen Elizabeth heard about the first African voyage of John Hawkins, she called it "detestable" and prophesied that it "would call down vengeance from Heaven upon the undertakers." When she learned how handsomely the shareholders made out, she invested in the second expedition herself...
...Queen's coldhearted preference for profit, says Pope-Hennessy, was everywhere the rule. The pages of his book are crammed with standard excuses: "I confess it's not a thing I like," wrote Richard Drake, who nevertheless stayed with the business for 20 years, "but slaves must be bought and sold. Somebody must do the trading, and why not make hay while the sun shines?" Slavery,was one of God's ways of bringing the heathen to Christianity, it was argued; and besides, slavery helped rid Africa of its well-known criminal element...