Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other Vision. To many American Negroes, the acme of success is symbolized by the world of Adam Clayton Powell: the nirvana of the deprived, where the Good Life is also the Sportin' Life, and where power cruisers, beauty-queen girl friends and expense-account junkets are the talismans of achievement. At the other pole is the Negro's deeper vision of equality with white Americans in terms of individual intellect, ability and dignity. That vision is embodied by Senator Brooke...
...Mary Quant, Actress Mary Ure and the dip set at Lancaster House, and addressed scarlet robed sheriffs and aldermen, ecclesiastics and industrialists at the Guildhall. Ahead in Fashion. Kosygin dined on pheasant laid out on Sèvres china at dinner for 56 in Buckingham Palace, where everyone, including Queen Elizabeth, came in informal clothes in deference to the Soviet Premier's liking for the common touch. Kosygin addressed both Houses of Parliament in the opulently decorated Royal Gallery of the Lords, proposing a "treaty of friendship, cooperation and nonaggression" with Britain. On a side trip to Scotland...
...plot is silly-surreal. A white U.S. she wolf named Beclch (Sharon Gans) becomes the vampire queen of an African tribe. She is a voracious, paganly sadistic earth mother; her husband (Jerome Dempsey) is an earthworm. To secure her rise to power, she coaxes him into contracting elephantiasis, which the natives regard as a symbol of regal divinity. He is a king in name and pain only, as she promptly betrays him with a kind of virility totem, a bare-torsoed American from Marlbrando country. Deserted by this lover at play's end, the white queen faces beheading...
...porcelain tea bowls and cups. Top price of $50,000 went to Captain General Ubilla's whistle, with its 2,176-link chain. Given such prices, the Real Eight are not stopping now. Not with eight wrecks yet to be investigated and the Queen's jewels still to be found...
...Homecoming Vivien plays temptress and tigress, an enigmatic queen of the snarling jungle in her in-laws' house. Her hooded hazel eyes crinkle with bemusement, sag in boredom, flash with killing contempt or sexual electricity. Her fellow actors are all members in high standing of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, but it is Vivien who overpowers them all as the household whore-mother...