Word: queenly
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...mended. Now Nixon proclaimed a 30-day period of national mourning and praised Truman as "one of the most courageous Presidents in our history" and "a man with guts." Warm tributes from world leaders flowed into Independence, Mo. France's President Georges Pompidou and Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II both cited Truman's aid in rebuilding Europe after the war. Noting Truman's early recognition and support of Israel, Foreign Minister Abba Eban said the U.S. President had "helped a tormented humanity to stand on its feet and to raise its head high once again...
LORD OLIVIER and Dame Sybil Thorndike promised readings from famous speeches from the past. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were scheduled to attend. The occasion this week is a planned "celebration in words and music," in London's Royal Opera House, marking Britain's historic entry into the European Economic Community. The celebration is part of an eleven-day "Fanfare for Europe" planned by the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, at a cost of $825,000. Among its flourishes will be a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall, a "Poets...
Shaffer had learned virtually everything she knew about the flute from Kincaid. Shortly before his death in 1967 at the age of 71, he had handed down his extraordinary platinum flute to her. She was not just the queen of the flute, but one of the world's two or three finest concert flutists, male or female. In 1971, Shaffer and Pianist Hephzibah Menuhin gave the world premiere of the new work at a benefit for Philadelphia's Settlement Music School, with Copland in attendance. Last week in New York, Shaffer recorded the work for Columbia Records, this...
...half brother to Alex Portnoy, whose adolescent reverie while he watched "the gentile girls" ice-skating at night ("How do they get so gorgeous, so healthy, so blonde?") might make a good epigraph for The Heartbreak Kid. Lenny's hangdog adoration of Kelly, the definitive homecoming queen, turns him into exactly the kind of chattering fool that Lila was. One of the crucial problems with the movie is that Shepherd, who is ideally icy in the earlier Miami scenes, cannot manage the difficult transition into actually caring for Lenny. Even on the day of the wedding she seems...
...last image may have been as much theatrical effect as spiritual experience; as the first nighttime launching, Apollo 17 was a triumph of spectacle. It was also the last manifestation of a wonder of the world, and to see it depart was like taking the last voyage on the Queen Mary or hearing the farewell concert of Toscanini...