Word: regal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princess Margaret tracks the regal personage from its earliest years when it could be found in the nursery, biting its older sister. At times, Margaret seems to have walked from a Thurber cartoon, inquiring in 1939, "Who is this Hitler, spoiling everything?" By her early 20s she has become a peculiar amalgam of Elizabeth Taylor and an acrylic doll, possessing "an almost Semitic beauty with a Lucite complexion...
Their materialism, especially as incarnated in limos and jewels, reduces us into believing that it represents the sublime. Asceticism, which worked similar magic on medieval monks and more recently on Jerry Brown, just isn't fun. Reagan's inauguration. Chivas Regal ads, and books like Kahn's provide many examples of people flaunting their money Extravagance promises a ready way to self-help, to rising above the crowd. Extremism in the pursuit of riches is no vice. We link it first to priceless human virtues, like individual drive and creativity, and only later on waste and self-indulgence. Jock Whitney...
...taken to a tremendous hall. Dozens of men (women being strictly segregated) in identical black robes and white headdresses were seated along the walls, immobile and silent. What seemed like 100 yards away on a slightly raised pedestal sat King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud, aquiline of feature, regal of bearing. He rose as I entered, forcing all the princes and sheiks to follow suit in a flowing balletlike movement of black and white. He took one step toward me; I had to traverse the rest of the way. I learned later that his taking a step forward...
...beach. The telephoto-lens pictures, taken by enterprising photographers from a nearby beach, were plastered all over the Sun, Britain's largest selling daily, and the Daily Star. It was a picture of a standing Diana in a strapless bikini, revealing her gently rounded royal tummy, that offended regal sensibilities most. The next day, the Sun editors offered an obsequious apology and, to show how sorry they were, reprinted the picture seven inches deep on the front page...
...hedgehogs required thick cloth gloves; those cataloguing protozoa developed eyestrain after weeks of staring intently into microscopes; those working with uranium samples had to wear special devices to monitor levels of radiation; and those tallying mammals preserved in alcohol experienced queasy stomachs. "It doesn't smell like Chivas Regal in those collections," sniffed one researcher...