Word: queens
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...actuality of Egyptian history, the Queen of the Nile was never so violet-eyed and opulently creamy. And American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, had rarely staged such shamelessly excessive scandal. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. Cleopatra and Hamlet fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms, and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess - except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and presidents were assassinated or driven from...
...once peed in his armor, and the tinkle made the other actors giggle!"). Students without speaking parts play music that would make old Will squirm: Aegeon's plea for a stay of execution is accompanied by the Beatles' Help!, and the pursuit of a portly servant is enlivened with Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls. An overhead video shows the screaming crowds in Godzilla as the actors chase Antipholus around the classroom. "Shakespeare's fun," Esquith says. "And they learn tons of vocabulary...
...Despite Jordan's sympathetic relationship with Israel over the past three decades, the king reigns over a citizenry that is 70 percent Palestinian (most prominent among them being his glamorous wife, Queen Rania) and would face strong domestic criticism if he were seen in any way to endorse Israel's exclusive claim on the city. And while Israel and Jordan signed their own peace agreement in 1994, the Hashemite kingdom has its own areas of conflict with the Jewish state over issues such as water. By virtue of its geography as much as anything else, Jordan also remains...
...20th century. Gertrude Tiske's "Portrait of Mary" (1920) depicts a young woman with red braids in a yellow dress and checkered apron. The portrayal of Mary as an ordinary woman provides a stark contrast to the exalted portraits of earlier centuries, which showed Mary as saint, regal queen or grieving mother. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, an artist living in Boston, gives a striking interpretation of the Holy Family in eight photographs of a mother and father embracing their son in turn. Only the child is visible; the parents' faces remain hidden from the camera...
Seven months after JonBenet Ramsey's murder, with the investigation going nowhere, police detectives in her hometown of Boulder, Colo., took an extraordinary gamble. They flew to Atlanta, Ga., where her parents had moved after the killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera...