Word: regal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lake Placid, N.Y., four years ago, Phil took a silver medal in the slalom, just the third Alpine medal collected by an American male in ten Games over 44 years; none has ever won a gold. In 1980 he finished behind the regal Swede Ingemar Stenmark, who also won the giant slalom. Slaloming is weaving through a course described by slender flagpoles. The giant slalom combines all this sideways whooshing with the third Alpine skiing discipline, downhill racing. While Phil also braves the downhill, he has basically followed the concentrated swerves of Stenmark, who has made slalom skiing more than...
There are two works of art in A Medieval Feast, written and illustrated by Aliki (Crowell; $9.95): the regal meal, and the author's rendering of it. Preparations at the manor house, the pursuit of pheasants by falcons, and boars by aristocrats, the serving of the rare Cockentrice (a capon and suckling pig cut in half, stuffed and sewn each to the other's half), and finally the ravenous consumption of the endless courses are researched and represented with the serene detail of an illuminated manuscript...
...Hungarian-born Marton, too, is electrifying audiences worldwide. Last month in the Opera Company of Boston's Turandot, she gave a regal account of Puccini's Chinese ice princess that could serve as an object lesson in how the role should be sung. Bringing the full weight of her massive voice to bear on the torturous part, Marton demolished its fearsome technical difficulties while touchingly developing the heroine from a frigid despot into a tender, vulnerable woman. This week at the Met she takes on another of opera's superwomen, Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelia...
...press secretary, Greg Schneiders: "If we had a choice between our organization or Mondale's, we'd take his." Mondale and his aides usually fly first class; press secretaries and other campaign assistants tend to him in relays. On a campaign swing to Maine, Chivas Regal Scotch flowed and the sandwiches were lobster...
RECOVERING. Bette Davis, 75, fiery, regal Hollywood star for nearly half a century; after a monthlong hospital stay for treatment of a neurological disorder; in New York City. Davis plans to resume work on her new television series Hotel...