Word: regaling
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Getting angry was only part of what made Bush a better candidate in South Carolina. His loss in New Hampshire forced him to step out of his regal motorcade and away from his podium. Despite their calm public faces, everyone on the Bush team, starting with the Governor, knew that a loss in South Carolina would probably mean the end of the campaign. As an aide said, "We had to take some risks...
...Postulate 2: A peacock should be a beautiful, regal animal. The HPT's peacock, Middlesex, however, is neither. (Ben Kornell, however, extricates himself admirably...
...moody prince makes only a walk-on appearance. Updike's spotlight falls instead on Hamlet's mother Queen Gertrude and her adulterous affair with Claudius, her husband's younger brother. The topic of illicit sex will sound familiar to Updike's readers, but the archaic Scandinavian setting and the regal gravitas of the characters involved make this old story fresh and moving...
...miles of rich cloth. The largest set constructed from scratch since Cleopatra, including a seven-acre palace. Thousands of extras, amongst them children you'd love to take home. A gilded barge gliding through the waters of an enchanted jungle. Well-behaved elephants. All of this headed by the regal, charming, sexy Chow Yun-Fat. Sounds better than the Greatest Show on Earth. However, the shaky basis, unnecessary length and wobbly storyline of Anna and the King denies it a place amongst epic love stories like Ben-Hur and The English Patient...
...Other] Spirits and wine, including Chivas Regal and Mumm, Spencer Gifts...