Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electronic brains that have transformed business methods and the trading stamps that have conquered the housewife. Litton makes guidance systems that fly planes virtually without human help, devices that generate light beams to burn holes in thick steel plates and gyroscopes that smooth the sickening roll of a Queen Elizabeth caught in an ocean storm...
...small mad leer of bliss sits marinating mindlessly. "Flying is a most peculiar experience," she muses. "First they tie you to your seat and say you are going to go. Then they untie you and say you are not going to go. Hah! You'd never catch the Queen Mary behaving like that!" After Rutherford, Burton and Taylor hardly seem worth watching. But Rod Taylor holds his own pretty well...
...British, having conscientiously freed most of their colonial subjects, now feel entitled to view with horror the spectacle of Birmingham police turning loose police dogs and fire hoses on protesting Negroes. But in the flush days of Queen Victoria's empire, the British conscience was not always so sensitive. In this lively book, Historian Bernard Semmel recounts the brutal re action of the British authorities when a handful of Jamaicans revolted...
...Alfonso, marriage becomes a nightmare and the big brass bed in their room an innerspring torture rack. Then abruptly-too abruptly-the film shifts moods. Regina is smugly, victoriously pregnant; the queen bee has been served. Soon Alfonso finds her frigidity as maddening as her earlier ardor. One last time she condescends, and he is carted away in an ambulance...
Hopes & Fears. Among historians, Durant is the great anecdotist. Catherine, Queen to England's Charles II and a lady to her fingertips, finds the King disheveled in his chambers, notices a slipper beside the bed and graciously withdraws "lest the pretty little fool hiding behind the curtains should catch cold." Peter the Great, greeted by the King of France before the royal palace, graciously picks up his host and carries him up the steps like an infant...