Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ballet Theater premiere in 1967. After a year of living with the production, the company is able to bring to a performance some thing far more rare than mechanical perfection: aristocratic authority. And Ballet Theater fortunately possesses at least one ballerina with the promise of becoming an outstanding swan queen: 21-year-old Cynthia Gregory...
...intrepid breed-and Britain's new nautical hero -tottered ashore at Portsmouth last week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood." Praising his "tenacity, skill and courage, "Queen Elizabeth knighted Rose and invited him and his wife Dorothy to lunch at Buckingham Palace...
...know that it was performed before Queen Elizabeth and her court in 1597. But there is good evidence that this was a revision of an original written in 1588, which would make it the earliest of Shakespeare's plays to survive. Regardless of its date, it betrays an author who was dramaturgically unsure of himself...
Although it remarked favorably on her 35-26-36 measurements, her "dazzling" smile, "pretty" legs and "clear" skin, the London fashion magazine Nova nonetheless lamented last week that Britain's Queen Elizabeth II-at 42 -is "by no means a glamour girl." So Nova took the problem to the French for frank answers. "Pluck the eyebrows," ordered Carita of Paris. "Mold the cheekbones . . . The eyes must be emphasized ... A little light in the hair . . . Mouth toned down . . . Transparent makeup." While Courrèges decked the Queen out in a modestly mod dress and jacket, Alexandre cropped her royal mane...
Unashamedly queer characters are everywhere: in big films (Boom!), little films (P.J.), melodramas (The Fox) and comedies (The Producers). In a new documentary, The Queen,* they parade by the camera in a transvestite beauty . pageant. More of them are on the way to neighborhood screens. Staircase, a play about two aging male lovers has been bought by 20th Century-Fox; The Killing of Sister George, a tragicomedy concerning a tweedy lesbian and her baby-doll companion, is now being filmed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) in London. Oscar Winner Rod Steiger's next big film, The Sergeant...