Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colored subgroup; the Japanese in South Africa, who are mostly foreign businessmen, are regarded as "honorary whites"?thereby illustrating the comment of Frantz Fanon, the black radical writer, that "you are rich because you are white, but you are also white because you are rich." A black beauty queen who won a holiday at a Cape hotel was refused accommodation because the hotel did not have international status. In a reshuffle of Durban's elaborately segregated beaches, Indians took over one formerly white beach but discovered they could not use the restaurant there; its designation had not been changed...
Even for a queen, a $522,000 raise is a princely sum. Although British Prime Minister James Callaghan is struggling to keep pay raises no higher than 10%, Parliament last week awarded Queen Elizabeth an 18% hike in her allowance-to $3.4 million. Besides the toll of inflation, said a palace spokesman, "there have also been extra costs due to the Silver Jubilee." Other royal coffers will get some extra coins as well. The Queen Mother is to get an additional $27,000, bringing her allowance up to $279,000, and Princess Margaret, who was awarded a $9,000 raise...
...works that the Boston Ballet presented last week at the Music Hall, in the opening series of performances of the 1977-78 season. The program, which ran through Sunday, began with Act II of Swan Lake, the famous moonlit encounter of a prince with the enchanted Swan-Queen. Separating this act from the full ballet proved to be something of a mutilation; it cancelled the careful dramatic architecture of the whole, forcing the audience to view the ballet as "pure dance." Yet this limited view is not totally stifling, as the dance, a supreme masterpiece of the Russian tradition, contains...
...possible, presenting the onlooker with the paradox of human forms assuming a fluid, abstracted aesthetic function. Thursday's swan maidens were polished, nestling together like the coils of a spring, swirling and clustering in their white skirts like blown dandelion seeds. On the other hand, Laura Young's Swan Queen was, for all her technical competence, thoroughly disappointing. The role is a showcase of breathtaking choreography, but Young moved from pose to pose as though composing the isolated frames of a film strip. A sense of fluid, organic wholeness was entirely lacking, and her uninspired dramatic portrayal had the same...
...subsequent call demanded the abdication of Queen Juliana as ransom for Caransa. The caller also insisted on the release of West German Terrorist Knut Folkerts from a Maastricht prison cell in southern Holland. Police speculated that Caransa's captors might belong to the same gang of anarchists that kidnaped West German Industrialist Hanns-Mar-tin Schleyer in early September. Schley-er's body was found in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France, not far from the German border two weeks ago, shortly after West German commandos staged their daring rescue raid on a skyjacked Lufthansa...