Word: regal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibility of a regal drama is lost amidst this ragged anthology of styles and postures. In theatrical tradition, the fortunes of king and queen were the human situation writ large. In Goldman's hands, the process is reversed; Henry and Eleanor are reduced to a TV-sized version of the sovereigns next door, their epic struggles shrunk to sitch-com squabbles, and their children mere refractions of their mean spirits...
...true visual flair, nothing beats rhythm-and-blues. Snazzy-stepping, soul-singing performers like James Brown and Wilson Pickett sock it to the faithful with a furious abandon that shakes the halls on college campuses and urban temples like Harlem's Apollo Theater or Chicago's Regal. Of all the R-and-B cats, nobody steams up the place like Sam & Dave...
...just in front of the royal palace. Orson Welles is appropriately resonant as the blind Tiresias-though he appears so massive that it is hard to imagine his having been turned into a woman, as the legend has it. Lilli Palmer's Jocasta manages to be at once regal, sexy and maternal in this famous Freudian archetype of mother love gone...
...Miss Alexandria" is, quite naturally, the last of the Morleys, a family that has more or less owned Unionville for generations. With her "thin, regal nose" and her whim of iron, she is a durable devotee of doing things right. "I was brought up to be polite," she says complacently, "even if it killed you." Living in a world of Satsuma bowls and family portraits, she nonetheless bravely jousts with the local mineowners, predictably besting them all. Through a shrewd financial maneuver, she forces them to pay their delinquent school taxes. Conveniently deaf, socially deft and totally domineering, she admits...
...meantime, President Svoboda had flown to Moscow for face-to-face negotiations with the Soviet leaders. Though they gave him a regal reception in public, the Soviets subjected him in private to vitriolic abuse. "It was ten times worse than Cierna," a member of the Czechoslovak delegation said later. With Brezhnev leading the attack, the Russians ordered Svoboda to set up an anti-Dubček puppet regime. They insisted on the right to name the members of the Presidium. If he did not comply, they warned, Czechoslovakia would be submitted to punishments that would make the rape of Hungary...