Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hotel Majestic this week with a conspicuous lack of pomp. No parades will march up the Champs-Elysées; no balls will be held at Versailles; there will be nothing to equal the splendor the French lavished within the past year on the visits of Leonid Brezhnev and Queen Elizabeth. Indeed, the only glitter will come from a modest gala in the Elysée Palace's gilt-and-tapestry Salle des Fêtes on Thursday night...
...didn't marry a King, I married a professor," the late Queen Louise of Sweden once remarked about her husband's lifelong search for archaeological treasures. Now 89, King Gustaf VI Adolf still enjoys an annual exploration in Italy. His latest dig is at Viterbo, 50 miles north of Rome, where His Majesty donned a jaunty hat, seized pick and chisel, and set forth to unearth the secrets of an Etruscan burial ground...
...probably as close as he'll get to playing the real thing. Welles, as a millionaire striving for omnipotence must not only defend the world he has built up around himself from a psychotic son, but support a droopy, chche-ridden script derived in about equal parts from Ellery Queen and Sigmund Freud Queen's novel provides the story, and the message is Chabrol's interpretation of the gospel according to St. Sigmund...
Leverett, who is president of the Harvard Chess Club, and Franklin, one of this year's brightest stars, both entered the last round undefeated. But Franklin lost his match in a dogged bishop and rook endgame, while Leverett made a hash of the Queen's Gambit Declined, giving up a pawn on the seventeenth move...
...That extra $245 adds a million dollars worth of class," reports Clarence Page, 25, a Chicago Tribune reporter. "You drive around feeling like a homecoming-queen candidate. It's an incredible phenomenon." Joe Troiani, 23, a Chicago social worker, fondly recalls the night he parked his Royced VW in front of Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner's North Side mansion. When he and his date returned, a crowd had gathered to admire his car. "Nobody," says Troiani, "was paying attention to Hefner's big Mercedes limo...