Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday the yanis still adorns Queen Noor al Hussein, 47, as she steps into the sitting room of her family home, Bab al Salaam (Door of Peace), to speak with a reporter for the first time since her husband's death. Jordan's official 40-day mourning period ended a day earlier, and in the course of a 2 1/2-hr. interview over lentil soup and tuna sandwiches, the Queen is, for the most part, strong and hopeful, at times bestowing her beguiling smile...
JUDI DENCH'S OSCAR-WINNING PORTRAYAL OF QUEEN ELIZABETH IN "SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE" LASTED 8 MINUTES...
...taught "how to create the perfect fro-yo cone." Some seem to think that the "perfect" cone is some sort of man-sized frozen spiral, a structural wonder whose height is bounded only by the distance from the fro-yo spout to the floor. In today's Dairy Queen world, such an attitude is not surprising--which doesn't make such twisted monstrosities any less apalling. These "comes" are not created so much as they are mindlessly pumped out by the drone-like yogurt lackeys one would expect at the local McDonald's, not at the three-way-tied...
...stands tall against the gray London sky. Pigeons peck their way through stale breadcrumbs at the base of Lord Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square. Beefeaters--the red-coated protectors of the queen--escort crowds through the Tower of London into centuries past, when tyrannical monarchs severed heads and placed them on sticks to line the wooden bridges over the River Thames. Streets blur with red and black--the red of double-decker buses and the black of box-like taxis. This is the London everyone knows. But there is another London, where the neighborhood green grocer and ironmonger putter...
Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love. Sure, Dench was fun as a curmudgeon-ish Elizabeth I. But for goodness sakes, she was only on screen for nine minutes! But Dench plays ice queen better than anyone, and Academy members feel guilty for passing her over in Mrs. Brown last year for Helen Hunt (we all feel guilty for that...