Word: regaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, the Queen's second state visit to France in 15 years was a regal affirmation of the current warm state of Anglo-French relations. As President Georges Pompidou discreetly noted in his welcoming speech, "some hesitations and difficulties of an old love affair begun in 1957" had occurred in the meantime. Later, at a banquet Her Majesty remarked: "We may drive on different sides of the road, but we are going the same way." The same way, of course, is a united Western Europe, and with the Queen's visit Britain seemed all but signed, sealed...
Similar misconceptions distorted the images of my other childhood heroines. I once envisioned the daring aviator, Amelia Earhart, in helmet and goggles to be at least as regal as Joan of Arc. Now I read how she crashed to an ambiguous death in the Pacific, amid rumors that she was on a secret espionage mission against Japan. And I read that Pocahontas, after heroically saving John Smith, eventually married a settler she may not even have loved, only to die in England three years later--just twenty-five--overcome by a bitter winter. And I pictured Lotta Crabtree, the actress...
Somewhat in the manner of royalty, Ingrid Bergman deigns to make an infrequent city-to-city tour before her oohing and aahing subjects. Lovely to look at, graciously regal in bearing, exotically foreign in accent, she does not remotely intend for any playwright to steal the spotlight. An assiduous search through a trunkful of lesser Shaw has provided the perfect vehicle in Captain...
Miss Redgrave's Mary is regal, nervous, passionate, uncertain - a delicate creature in life who becomes indomitable only in death. Miss Jackson's Elizabeth is cunning, complex, intriguing - a monarch whose desire for power is both a motivating force and a tragic flaw, Otherwise, various men of the court make violent mischief amongst each other on staircases and battlements...
...dead, he utters the fivefold "Never" that some regard as the greatest single line in English drama. But in the film, he does not fumble at his throat and go on to say "Pray you, undo this button," thus depriving the act of tragic purgation and vertiginous descent from regal magnificence to the pitiable humanity of the commonplace...