Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally settle down and wed the fair Lady Diana Spencer, 19. Last week's installment was a Daily Mirror centerfold that reported a Milquetoast proposal from Charles: "If I were to ask you, do you think it would be possible?" and a decidedly less ambiguous ultimatum from the Queen: "Marry her by this summer...
...Mary's retinue assembles, the pace quickens, and the play resembles a Marx brothers script co-authored by Genet and Brecht. As ladies in waiting attend the Queen, they are addressed from the rear by fornicating lackey-lovers. When Mary calls for her dogs, a bevy of stuffed canines are propped up before her. She chooses to disremember that she once had a hound killed for losing the scent in a foxhunt. Like unskilled pickpockets, her attendants try to plunder her last remaining jewelry. A marvelously comic doctor-apothecary team (John Bottom and Ron Faber) get the Queen deliriously...
...always, his political showmanship was adroit. To muster support, Paisley sat down ostentatiously in Belfast's City Hall last week, behind a table covered with the Union Jack, to sign his name to "Ulster's Declaration," which he had composed. It pledged allegiance to Queen Elizabeth on the part of Northern Ireland Protestants - and promised a fight against "the conspiracy hatched at the Thatcher-Haughey Dublin summit." The "conspiracy" to which he referred was last December's Dublin summit between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Charles J. Haughey...
...wily teenager, she ran through lovers like a bull on the pampas; as Senora Perón, she stalked the corridas of power, sniffing for the blood of old enemies. Young Eva told a colleague she wanted to play the great ladies of history: Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Lucrezia Borgia. Her wish was her destiny and her doom. Fate and a will of steel cast her as the avatar of all these women, and when she died her grieving lover was the nation...
...begin behaving suspiciously like members of the human race. The Canopean overseers sadly change the place's name to Shikasta, "the hurt, the damaged, the wounded one." In The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980), Lessing unveils a different terrain in her new universe. A queen and king from adjoining regions are commanded by the mysterious powers to marry and restore fertility to their kingdoms. They do not like each other. Their struggles to obey the order are comic, poignant and ultimately successful...