Word: regal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directorial conception and as a casting decision, having Terence Kelly play Lopakhin is a mistake. Urbane, almost unctuous, he seems like an insurance man offering Mme. Ranevsky a real estate policy of cutting down the trees for a housing development. There should be a hush surrounding the regal presence of Mme. Ranevsky when she sweeps into a room. Carole Shelley resembles a '40s movie starlet posturing to capture a producer's eye. All this merely taps the defects in this production. Chekhov preached that the salvation of Russia lay in work. The Shaw Festival might take that...
...Sylphides, the greedy virgin in Three Virgins and a Devil, the doll in Petrouchka, the Columbine in Carnaval, the eldest sister in Pillar of Fire, the stepmother in Fall River Legend, Juno in The Judgment of Paris, the fourth song in Dark Elegies, Queen Clementine in Bluebeard and the regal imperious Mother to such Princes in Swan Lake as Rudolf Nureyev and Anthony Dowell...
...only Big Three automaker to earn a profit this year. Its very successful X cars, such as the Chevrolet Citation and the Buick Skylark, are helping the company maintain its market share. This fall GM will introduce shrunken or downsize intermediate cars like the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and Buick Regal. Its J car is due in April 1981, and will be a sporty subcompact successor to such models as the Chevy Monza...
...abdication followed a precedent set by her strong-willed mother, Queen Wilhelmina, who passed the crown on to her in 1948. From the beginning of her popular reign, Juliana combined a deep-seated sense of royal duty with an instinctive dislike of pomp and protocol. More matronly than regal in bearing, she would ride a bicycle and shop at open markets like any Dutch housewife. But she also took her job as constitutional monarch seriously, and occasionally even played an active political role. In 1977 she reportedly delayed the formation of a new coalition government by insisting that the socialists...
...Papadopoulos, now 60, whom the prison guards at first timidly referred to as "the President," resides on the second floor together with mem bers of his old regime. He conducts him self like an "Olympian god," the book says, treating his former subordinates with condescension, electing to dine in regal solitude. For a time, he kept up a correspondence with some of his former girl friends. That did not, however, stop his wife from trying to smuggle him a ration of cognac in fruit-juice cans. It was he who persuaded the authorities to install wiring for air conditioners...