Word: queene
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...been costly, especially in the U.S. Since the death of Hunger Striker Bobby Sands in May, direct and indirect contributions to the I.R.A. from Irish-Americans have reportedly tripled. During a visit to New York last month, Prince Charles was the target of loud anti-British demonstrations. Last week Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret-who caused a furor in a 1979 visit to the U.S. when she was reported to have called the Irish "pigs"-was persuaded by Thatcher to cancel a proposed trip to Washington scheduled for next week. The reason: fears of further protests and even...
...FREE FALL in Crimson the figure of evil is taken on by an outlaw biker Passionate women, Hollywood frauds, greedy do wells, a weird director making a disaster movie, about a hot air balloon meet, the queen of the TV game show circuit, and a selection of wealthy sophiticates--all make appearances. Each plays a role in what is certainly a formula; but the formula is rendered with such simplicity and compassiong and strong prose that Free Fall In Crimson is wholly irresistible...
Police quickly grabbed Marcus Simon Sarjeant, 17, an unemployed youth from a small town near Dover, and charged him with "wilfully discharging at the Queen blank cartridges with intent to alarm her." Despite fears that the shooting was some kind of warning from the Irish Republican Army, the action may merely have been a protest against the lack of jobs for young Britons. An official spokesman acknowledged that there would probably be a "re-examination of security" for next month's royal wedding, which might take some of the festivity out of the occasion...
Draped in a most unladylike damp cloth, the gray clay figure looked more like Aphrodite rising from the sea than the future Queen of England. But the royal figure of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, will be appropriately demure by the time it joins the waxed likenesses of Prince Charles, 32, her husband-to-be, at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. A plaster mold was made of Sculptor Muriel Pearson's feat of clay, from which a wax figure is being shaped; later it will be colored and dressed. The Di will be cast shortly before...
BORN. To Jordan's American-born and Princeton-educated Queen Noor, 29, the former Lisa Halaby, and King Hussein, 45: their second child, second son; in Amman. Name: Hashem, for Jordan's ruling Hashemite dynasty...