Word: regaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both women show the film makers albums full of old photographs in which they are regal and rather beautiful. Edith sings. So does Edie. The summer is about to end. Edie confides that her mother, against all evidence, is "a lot of fun. I hope she doesn't die. I don't want to spend another winter here, though...
...laws of the realm and remain faithful to the principles that guide the National Movement" (the country's sole legal political party). There was speculation that as one of his first official acts, King Juan Carlos may posthumously ennoble his predecessor. It would be an ironic touch of regal glory for the Galician paymaster's son, who had held more power in his lifetime than the new King might ever know...
...sporting life, which offered Franco virtually his only escape from official routine, was abandoned in recent years for the regal pleasures of a cloistered castle existence: liveried servants, Moorish guards on white stallions, walls covered with Goya tapestries-and obsequiousness everywhere. Foreign ambassadors who were granted audiences with the Caudillo had a precise protocol of steps and bows. In addition to his love of pomp, Franco was a man of rigid decorum, methodical habit and deep Christian piety; his orderly days included regular attendance at Mass and midnight recitation of the rosary with his wife, the former Carmen Polo...
Lion In Winter. Much fun. Katherine Hepburn plays Eleanor of Aquitaine and gets to turn all her regal frigidity on Henry II. Not to be relied on for your History 30 midterm, but good clean fun without the masochism of Becket or the high-flown rhetoric of Man for All Seasons...
...fact, the audience loved everything-as well it might. What other troupe can offer not only Kirkland's gossamer softness but the grand, regal style of Cynthia Gregory; the quiet, understated eloquence of Martine van Hamel; the boyish, leaping lyricism of Fernando Bujones; the courtly, steadfast partnering of Ivan Nagy and Ted Kivitt...