Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Tonight at 7:35 and 11:10 p.m., Design for Living at 9:35 p.m. The African Queen, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., A New Leaf...
...Swiss journalist who managed to accompany Viet Cong forces into Hué, one-fifth of the city's population of nearly 200,000 had fled before the Communists seized the old imperial capital. Dozens of planes and helicopters had been abandoned at Hué's airport. Aging Queen Mother Doan Huy, 86, was treated with respect by the arriving soldiers, the reporter said, but part of her palace was converted into a hospital. Soup kitchens were set up in public squares and even bicycles were commandeered to bring in food...
...stage, Ingrid Bergman dotes on second-rate plays. In recent years she has appeared in inferior O'Neill (More Stately Mansions), hand-me-down Shaw (Captain Brassbound's Conversion), and now in fossilized Maugham. Bergman has treated each of these dilapidated vehicles as if it were the Queen's own royal barouche wheeling through the gates of Buckingham Palace. Indeed, Elizabeth II would not fault Bergman's acting technique-a tilt of the head, a flash of a smile and the wave of a hand...
...after all, a period piece. And that is exactly how the play is handled in this production--which, thank God, doesn't try to get funny with any embarrassing 20th-century gimmickry. There are plenty of slapstick embellishments, but--from the opening blast of "God Save the Queen" to the fake 19th-century programs, this production remains true to the spirits of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan themselves...
...Burr Fairchild. Since it was launched three years ago last week by the graciously gossipy publisher of Women's Wear Daily and seven other trade publications, W has toiled relentlessly to depict, extol and embody that elusive trait. This year alone, W has identified everything from Quality People (Queen Elizabeth, Elliot Richardson, Julia Child, the Due de Brissac, Sir Cecil Beaton and 33 others) to Quality Bread (Poilane and Panetier, two Paris boulangeries). Quips a Fairchild Publications art director: "Pretty soon we'll have to change the name from...