Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Talking Heads: 77 shows that the mature outlook displayed on the album cover carries over into the group's music. This is heady stuff--none of this "God Save the Queen" business. David Byrne, who wrote all the songs, indulges in complex, self-absorbed musings, sometimes assuming ironic personas to comment on the emptiness of life...
...fourth-and fifth-place categories, where Stowell says the team must "peck away at them." Triple-jumper Bruce Brooks and high-jumper Mike Young are the prime candidates to pick up these "unexpected" points that might swing the meet in the Crimson's favor, with Chris Queen and Tom DiBenedetto also challenging in the shot...
...Britain's royal portraitists, describing the travails of painting Elizabeth II: "Once she has chosen a pose, it's difficult to know how much one can ask her to modify it. Can you say 'Put more weight on the other foot' to the Queen...
Showing off the imperial state crown, the Queen bears an uncanny resemblance to Mrs. Earbore, Lily Tomlin's Tasteful Lady from Grosse Pointe. Describing George Ill's microscope, Prince Charles sounds disturbingly like his favorite King, old George himself. "It has all sorts of interesting little drawers in it, one of which has the original slides," he says, managing to be both cute and condescending at the same time. "I'm told that the things that are inside are 18th century fleas." Then, picking up a slide, he adds, "There's one very big one here...
Only the 77-year-old Queen Mother, warm, charming and irrepressibly vivacious, holds up the royal side. After the German bombing of Buckingham Palace, she remarks, "the garden was inundated"- her voice drops to a scandalized whisper-"with rats...