Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winded Lord Chamberlain and father of Ophelia, Cromwell never fails to get a laugh, as he constantly finds longer ways to say things. Particularly memorable is the scene where he takes at least a hundred lines merely to say that Ophelia is the cause of Hamlet's insanity, prompting Queen Gertrude (Mary Beth Peil) to utter the famous lines, "More matter, less...
There is no referee in the battle between Charles and Di. Queen Elizabeth may once have been under the illusion that she was the referee, but she was effectively out of the ring years ago. Also, since much of the fighting is carried on between each principal's pack of friends--packs well matched for loathsomeness--it can sometimes spin into the sort of mob frenzy so prized by Dirty Soccer devotees...
...adult were wounded. Frantic parents, police and emergency technicians rushed to the school as hospitals in Glasgow and Edinburgh were put on alert. The shooting occurred at the 700-student Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, a 13th century cathedral village of 9,000 people 40 miles from Edinburgh. Queen Elizabeth sent her condolences, and British Prime Minister John Major, now at a world summit on terrorism in Cairo, called the shootings "a mad and evil act", mirroring the reactions of parents and officials in the quiet Scottish town. The gunman, Thomas Hamilton was the 43-year-old administrator...
...That Kind of Girl), her voice and choice of material have matured; she's grown up in public. Another coal miner's daughter, Patty is a cousin of Loretta Lynn's--like about half of the singing South. But her true musical kin is Tammy Wynette, country's calamity queen. Like her, Patty sings the truth and serves...
HOPE COOKE, 55 Former Queen of Sikkim; historian