Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tabloids, as is their wont, not only detail the crime but also posit the charges that will be brought in the Dec. 26 murder of the six-year-old Boulder, Colo., beauty queen. All a frustrated public has to go on are those tales and the reiterations of District Attorney Alex Hunter, who told TIME last week, "I smell an arrest. The investigation is on track." Three weeks ago, investigators visited Patsy's sister Pam Paugh in Atlanta. She told TIME, "They felt they had done enough outside investigation to sit down and corroborate what they'd found out with...
...government have lost their seats, the party is virtually leaderless, the succession is wide open, and the only Tory politician who is looking calm, secure and confident is Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned loyally for John Major but privately forecast his catastrophic defeat. She will again be the Tory queen, and the kingmaker in the succession struggle...
...erotic drive in this performance derives largely from the magnificent performances of William Burke '99 as Oberon and Michelle McEwen '00 as Titania, the warring king and queen of the fairy court, whose power struggles in the forest on Midsummer's Night lead to the comedic sexual mishaps that drive the plot of the play. Besides imbuing the queen with the characteristics usually assigned to her--pride, haughtiness, allure--McEwen's Titania is also marvelously ferocious: the actress adds an unabashed sexual aggressiveness and a cuttingly sarcastic sense of humor. Burke, in a less flamboyant but perhaps more richly-textured...
...sophomores--bodes well for the next few years of Shakespearean performance at Harvard. Although the play's length (two-and-a-half-hours) may seem daunting to some, the show is so skillfully realized and so well paced that the time is well spent. In the words of Queen Hippolyta in the fantastic final scene, "This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard!" But you will enjoy every minute...
...leaders not only out of power but without even seats in parliament. A defeated John Major announced that he would step down as Conservative Party leader. "When the curtain falls, it's time to get off the stage," he said, before tendering his resignation as Prime Minister to Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham palace. Though Thursday's elections put a decisive end to 18 years of Conservative rule, Labour?s direction remains unclear. Blair has spent the last two years as Labour's head promoting what he calls the New Labour Party, reversing the party's long-held opposition to privatization...