Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ribakoff now numbers five women and six men - "all feminists," boasts Allred. The firm's star operates from a plush office jammed with antiques and feminist bric-a-brac. Among the items: a captain's desk with female gargoyles and a bewigged mannequin bearing a plaque THE QUEEN IS NOT GRANTING AUDIENCES TODAY. The sign is a gift from her daughter Lisa, a second-year law student at Yale. Working 14-hour days leaves Allred little time with her husband William, 53, an aircraft-parts dealer. The two married in 1968. William Allred supports his wife but jokes...
Tymitz said that the program would have been run on the Queen Elizabeth II, one of Tung's possessions, but it burned in Japan before it could be used. The Universe is less than half the Queen's size...
...touch of pathos. Fierstein can appeal to both gay and straight audiences as he openly reveals how similar are the problems and desires of both worlds and how the worlds are not nearly as far apart as they might superficially seem to be. Arnold is a nightclub drag queen who falls in love, loses his lover to a woman, wants to raise a child, and has to cope with a nagging Jewish mother through it all. It can happen to anyone...
...pain and frustration, her own strength and resolve, revealing that what her son feels is really not so alien to her. The scene becomes very familiar, and suddenly we realize that this is a more realistic slice of life that we ever expected to see in a drag queen's autobiography...
...second exotic subject is more mysterious, almost surreal. It is a zebra mare, which had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope and given to Queen Charlotte in 1762. This "painted African, ass," the first seen in England, was installed in the royal menagerie at Buckingham Gate. When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it. It is as though one had taken a wrong turn in the Forest of Arden and encountered...