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Every member of a royal dynasty shares, to some extent, the same degrading destiny. It was Charles' great-great-great- grandmother, Queen Victoria, who famously advised a daughter to survive the act of love by closing her eyes and concentrating on the British Empire. Marriage in this crowd is a patriotic duty, not a pleasure; and the consort--Philip in the case of Elizabeth, Di in the case of Charles--has always been in a rather awkward spot. In Di's case, the indignity was compounded by the fact that Charles already had a woman for purposes of companionship...
...work. Instead of rebelling against his mother and the institution she represents, he seems to have turned his bitterness against his hapless bride. So the revenge Di now seeks fits all too well. If she succeeds in her campaign to have the crown bypass him and go directly from Queen Elizabeth to young Prince William, Charles will turn out to have been no less a reproductive "vessel" than Di herself--a royal stud...
...QUEEN MARY By James Steele. (Phaidon/Chronicle; $55). The wish book of the year. The liner's glory days between the wars coincided with the apogee of Art Deco. This volume can be enjoyed as a catalog of an elegant, seductive style or, better yet, as a guide to travel in a luxury no longer available, even to the rich. The swimming pools of the three classes are so beckoning it is hard to choose among them. The insinuating lighting and the low, enticing lounge fittings call for ambrosia and a suspension of time...
...hightails it for the big city. Her master pleads, "Come home, old Puff, come home to us,/ There's a lot of new benefits I'd like to discuss." No dice. "I saw her six months later in a cat magazine./ She was the Number One TV cat-food queen/...I could tell it was Puff even though she was wrapped/ In a white mink stole and her teeth were capped." Kids love the jingle-jangle verse, and cats listen thoughtfully...
Indeed, there is a dawning recognition among classical performers that in a world in which marketing is queen, it behooves even serious musicians to put all their assets front and center. "The more we can try to appeal to broader audiences the better," says the highly accomplished Bachmann, whose latest album, Kiss on Wood, offers music by Aaron Copland and Alfred Schnittke--as well as a come-hither album back cover featuring (by classical music's standards) some generous cleavage. "Let's face it, people go into record stores and a lot of times buy recordings on the basis...