Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have egg on their faces? During the long and short programs, they put great weight on the reputation of a contestant. A neophyte skater may turn in a string of leaps and spins more dazzling than Katarina Witt's smile and still get lower marks than the reigning queen of the rink. The practice cuts across political affiliations. A Soviet judge will give a prominent American higher marks than a fledgling Russian who skates a comparable program. And vice versa. No matter how talented, all newcomers are always a little less than equal. To paraphrase Proverbs 22: 1, a good...
When it came time for Lind to choose colleges, she was initially going to apply to a pair of Canadian schools, Queen's College in Ontario and the University of British Columbia. But her brother Howie--then at Harvard Business School--told Lind about the women's hockey team at Harvard...
...lives only for her child and the memory of her husband, and of all the passions avowed in the opening scenes, only hers is steadfast. As portrayed by Suzman, Andromache's immersion in the past is not weak or dreamy but sexy and compelling. In the end, the enslaved queen rules over the city, and her son has been declared the rightful future king of Troy. The fickle, feckless others have been destroyed by their excesses: Pyrrhus murdered, Hermione a suicide, Orestes driven mad. Ultimately the production's shortcomings are not important. Racine, Miller and Set Designer Richard Hudson thrust...
Peter Lovesey's Bertie and the Tinman (Mysterious Press; 212 pages; $15.95) features a first-person amateur detective who is none other than the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria's son and heir. Lovesey proved himself the world's foremost concocter of latter-day Victoriana in his series of mysteries built around Sergeant Cribb, then echoed the early 20th century in the nostalgic Hollywood story Keystone and the brilliantly plotted thriller The False Inspector Dew. Here he returns to 19th century London and, as always, to a subtle but relentless dissection of Britain's unjust social-class system. The rueful...
...further selling by the portfolio insurers, reinforcing the downward spiral. One of the biggest, Wells Fargo, sold $1.6 billion in futures on Black Monday alone. This was more than the market could absorb. Says Capital's Kirby: "It's like a guy driving into a parking lot with the Queen Mary and asking, 'How come these guys haven't provided a space...