Word: regaling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though they deviated from regal norms in many ways, the couple recited centuries-old vows and consented to a carriage ride through Windsor before returning to the castle for a buffet-dinner reception. In the end, the couple bowed to tradition--but not too deeply...
...tricky and challenging waters of the women's movement, this thinking woman's editor prodded, provoked and pushed us. It's hard to imagine where women would be without her. Ruth put substance over style. She was fearless, solid, unwavering. There wasn't a phony bone on her regal Katharine Hepburnesque frame. She never underestimated women's intelligence, regularly publishing articles most women's magazines wouldn't touch, from "The Racism of Well-Meaning White People" to "Inside Tailhook: From the Woman Who Changed the Navy." One of the first things Ruth did at Glamour was change the annual college...
...Lucas in trouble over the hair" by designing coiffures every bit as grotty as Princess Leia's bagel buns. One of Amidala's dos looks like a fan belt, another like huge shoulder pads. He designed Amidala's raiment to be elaborate too. "George wanted the Queen so regal she could sneak out the back of the dress," he says, "and no one would know she was gone." Trisha Biggar spent a year fashioning the costumes. "It's George's first costume drama," she says. "The movie will have lots of girl appeal, especially the Queen's costumes...
...Part of audiences' attraction to "Shakespeare in Love" was its constant depiction of beauty--from the gold embroidered costumes, to the regal estates, to the gorgeous Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes. And while the screenwriters could have retained this beauty and still had Shakespeare direct his sonnet to a young man, beauty alone could not have won audiences' praise as it did--the movie's heterosexual romance made all of the difference...
...only comic relief from this overload of testosterone comes in the form of Van Der Beek's little brother, whose sissy religious inclinations threaten the very masculinity of their overbearing father. He literally has a cross to bear, bows with regal reverence to the barbecue grill and even at one point starts a cult with other neighborhood kids. How sweet...