Word: regaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...20th century, a woman of no previous wealth inherited a hatful of money, bought a big house and some farm land and assumed matriarchal ways. This was Gram, who had five daughters and, though no one seemed to think the fact very important, a husband. Her style was regal-she would stomp out at night to play bingo whenever she felt like it-and her son-in-law Dan the butcher called her the Queen of Persia. She sheltered, in her take-it-or-leave-it way, her unmarried daughters and whatever married ones happened, at any given moment...
...leads have excellent voices, especially Jayne S. West as patience, who earlier this week played Jenny in the 4S's modern musical comedy Company. West's Patience is delightfully innocent and her clear strong soprano never wavers. "West has a regal stage presence and sustains the misguided Patience strongly throughout the show...
...downtown renaissance. It seemed too good to last, and it was. Bloody street clashes in the 1970s over court-ordered school busing were followed in 1980 by necessary but ineptly handled budget slashes. His reputation as a slick manager damaged, White went on the defensive. He indulged in a regal life-style that earned him the epithet "King Kevin...
With its picket fences, modest cottages and colonial-era ambience, Williamsburg, Va., could hardly offer a greater contrast to the regal grandeur and formality of Louis XIV's palace at Versailles. The heads of government from the Big Seven industrial nations* are hoping that the outcome of their ninth annual economic summit, to be held in Williamsburg at the end of this month, will be equally different. Last year's summit in Versailles degenerated into bitter wrangling over East-West trade, and the leaders are desperately anxious to avoid a replay...
Varii Capricci finds both soloists in splendid form, but paradoxically playing against type; Ashton seems to have in mind a parody not only of his own romantic aesthetic but also of the origin of the fabled partnership as well. Here is the regal Sibley, the gossamer Titania of The Dream, reduced to a semislattern with one thing on her mind. Here is the princely Dowell, once her dashing Oberon, as an even more unsatisfying lover, a sexually indeterminate gigolo with Saturday-night fever. At the end of the first, teasingly erotic pas de deux, Dowell effortlessly lifts Sibley aloft...