Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Queen and Country" is a tale of the adventurous life a sailor encounters during the sack and pillage of enemy nations. Eventually the sailor tires of the women and treasures exotic lands can offer and reappraises his own self worth and allegiance to his country...
...Queen and Country in the long dying...
This is the adamantly delirious saga of Queen Christina of Sweden, a role once played by Garbo and now fallen, thanklessly, to Ullmann. She is wise enough not to try to capture Garbo's regal mystery. Ullmann instead goes after Christina's hobbled psyche and knotted libido. The script, however, does not necessarily move in the same direction as the leading actress. Indeed, it gives her very little to go on at all. Scenarist Ruth Wolff furnishes Christina with a mother who twists heads off dolls and recommends the presence of a dwarf during pregnancy. Christina...
...trip to Europe. "I danced a gavotte/ I ate an eclair/ I looked for Lee/ But she wasn't there," wrote a lighthearted Jackie Bouvier, 22, while her kid sister Lee, 18, sent home an unblinking commentary on her experiences. Once she encountered an interested Lebanese on the Queen Elizabeth. "Jackie has warned me," wrote Lee, "about the quirks in the sex lives of Near Easterners!!" Then there was the proboscidate Persian who whirled Lee round the dance floor ("The only thing I could see in the whole room was his nose"), while Jackie waltzed with the sexy purser...
...Elisabeth fares the better, perhaps because her spirit seems so restlessly contemporary. Though she married Franz Joseph when she was only 16 and gave him a son and three daughters, she played a lonely second fiddle to Franz Joseph's imperious mother Sophie. Eventually, the vivacious queen declared a kind of independence, becoming the adored champion of the cause of home rule for Hungary, traveling incessantly: now to England to ride after hounds, now to Turkey to explore Schliemann's diggings at Troy. She even translated Shakespearean plays into modern Greek. Primping and dieting narcissistically, Elisabeth remained...