Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anna's day, the King of Siam had 61 wives. His great-grandson, Thailand's King Bhumibol, has only one. But the celebration that marked the 32nd birthday of Queen Sirikit would have sufficed for at least three ordinary royal consorts. On the first day, the army and navy fired 21-gun salutes, while roses smothered Bangkok's main boulevard. On the second, Buddhist monks chanted as the Queen lit candles in the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. On the third, the royal household organized a charity fete, with a specially built nightclub resounding to the King...
Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons in 1900-when Victoria was still Queen and Gladstone had been gone only five years. Almost immediately he became one of its storm centers. His views were often heretic, often changed-and often right. In his maiden speech, he bolted Tory doctrine to argue-ironically-against trying to match the power of "the clanking military empires of the European continent." Shortly afterward he bolted the Conservative Party itself, joined David Lloyd George's Liberals, only to return 20 years later, completely unabashed: "Anybody can rat, but it takes a certain...
Surtees, brilliant in his own right, could only watch in awe. At the finish, Clark was 10.4 sec. ahead. Face streaked with mud, he stood stiffly at attention for God Save the Queen, and then dived into a car to escape hordes of autograph hunters. "This postrace hullabaloo really kills me," he said. "My stomach gets all knotted...
...role. Alec Guinness, he says, "was impressive without being definitive." Michael Redgrave "played it like Barbara Stanwyck with a mustache." Gielgud? "I guess he thought Richard was a neurasthenic who could cry at the drop of a crown." As for the play itself, in which Richard's queen is a young child, Hutt says: "It out-Humberts Humbert. It should be retitled Take Her, She's Nine...
...planned to star Princess Soraya, 32, because he was unable to "modernize" a Henry James novel, The American, sufficiently to suit her talents. But the whisper along Rome's Via Veneto had it that Soraya was the one who had refused to modernize: as Iran's ex-Queen, she had imperiously insisted on top billing, and no star De Laurentlis approached would play second fiddle to an amateur. In private, Soraya's escort crisis was not so acute. She took off from Capri on a week-long yacht cruise with her real-life leading man, German Cinemactor...