Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talked of finding some way to continue her charitable work in private, while allowing more time with her sons William, 11, and Harry, 9. In light of the rumors of a break with the palace, Diana explicitly claimed to have the Queen's blessing. But she made no mention of her husband at all. "She pointedly excluded the Prince of Wales," observed Brian Hoey, author of several books on the royals. "What she's saying is that she has finished with him." By the time she sat down, she was blinking back tears...
...separation -- a year that has taken its toll on the entire family. Diana threw herself into her many charities, but she kept some distance from Buckingham Palace. It was hard to know who was dissing whom. The Princess was conspicuously absent from Trooping the Color in June and the Queen Mum's birthday in August...
...powerfully ends with the new Snow scene after the nutcracker has turned into a prince and taken Clara to an enchanted forest. Trinidad Sevillano and Patrick Armand, as the Snow Queen and King, dance the newly choreographed movements with awe-inspiring strength and grace--not an easy task with snow falling throughout the scene, creating a slippery floor. The sweeping arm gestures with delicate bourre leg movement perfectly echo the motion of falling snow while the intertwining dancers surrounding the queen and king create spacial patterns on stage that mimic the delicate shape of a snowflake. Act I closes...
...Thursday, Dec. 9. "Wings of Desire" at 3 and 7:40 on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10 and 11. "Taxi Driver" at 5:30 and 10 on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10 and 11, with a Saturday matinee at 1 p.m. "The African Queen" at 3:30 and 7:30 and "Summertime" at 1:30, 5:30 and 9:30 on Sunday, Dec. 12. "The Letter" at 4:15 and 7:45 and "Another Man's Poison" at 6 and 9:30 on Monday, Dec. 13. "Daughters of Darkness" at 4:15 and 7:40 and "The Velvet Vampire...
...First Family's taste. The Lincolns were disparaged as spendthrifts. Rutherford Hayes' refurbishings were deemed "French-y and pretentious." Teddy Roosevelt smeared the Green Room with a polar-bear pelt, and purists reached for the smelling salts when Harry Truman built a balcony over the South Portico. Even decor queen Jackie Kennedy was sharply rebuked by the President himself when an all-too-authentic antique chair collapsed under him at the dining table...