Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five on the shoulders of his father Walter. We were touring in Rising Sun, Ohio." Years later, in 1960, Gish played for Huston in The Unforgiven, one of the 35 movies for which the grizzled director-actor was being honored, including such epics as The African Queen and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Huston, 73, listened to the compliments by stars with whom he had worked during a 39-year career, including Lauren Bacall, Jose Ferrer and Richard Burton. Then, hardly pausing for rest, he flew off to Hungary to work on his 36th movie, Escape to Victory...
...modern monarchies are closer to the people they democratically monarch than The Netherlands' House of Orange, and last week new Queen Beatrix, 42, and her family demonstrated why. Her coronation in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk as successor to her mother. Queen Juliana, 71, who was abdicating after 32 years, was a blaze of pageantry and color. But a block away from the monarchist crowds, in a city lately famous for noisy dissidents, clamored a raucous group protesting not only the coronation but also the country's tight housing policies. Did the royals realize that the dissenters were...
...best friend is his mother, of course. So Britain's Prince Andrew, 20, kept Mum dutiful company as Queen Elizabeth II sheltered against the weather at the Badminton Horse Trials. But it's nice to make new friends. With the Queen and Prince Philip off on a state visit to Switzerland, Andrew hosted a dinner in his Buckingham Palace apartment for a single guest: Carolyn Seaward, 19, a Devonshire lass who as Miss United Kingdom is best known for her measurements (35-24-35). "Absolutely wonderful," gushed Carolyn après he. "We just relaxed and listened...
Hitchcock did not seem to care very much about these neglects and misunderstandings. He had plenty of prizes; Queen Elizabeth knighted him this year, even though he had moved to Hollywood when he was 40 and had long since become a U.S. citizen. Young European c?astes, such as French Director-Critics Fran?s Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, began to write about Hitchcock's work with a seriousness that sometimes became unconsciously funny. But it was the beginning of a necessary reevaluation...
...European Community. She has taken on Britain's powerful trade unions, reducing them from their self-appointed role as a partner in government to just another pressure group. With every hair and vowel in place, Thatcher may seem to be cut from the same bolt as the Queen, but she would rather be respected than loved...