Word: regaling
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...always been the still point of a turning life. From the plush regal litter of the empress Josephine to the spartan mattress of the painter Francesco Clemente to the author's own seductive boudoir, the beds depicted in this dreamy book are not simply places to sleep but shrines to art, imagination and fantasy...
...break from the media circus can drive a few minutes to Sprinkles Ice Cream and Sandwich Shop and order a cone. But even that innocent pursuit carries a reminder: the latest flavor is Teddy's Best, vanilla ice cream spiked with the Senator's favorite drink, Chivas Regal...
...certain celebrity cachet. Quarterback Joe Montana got his brawny back manipulated on national TV (during the Superbowl pregame show). Cybill Shepherd grew so attached to her practitioner that she married him. Overseas, where chiropractic is both more popular and more widely accepted by doctors, Princess Di regularly gets her regal back cracked. And Russian ballet stars Vadim Pisarev and Marina Bogdanova reportedly would not risk an arabesque without a periodic adjustment...
...goal in his quest is a kingliness, a regal self-possession. Bly looks kingly enough at moments as he sits in his new Minneapolis house -- a handsome, substantial Midwestern paterfamilias place that he has just acquired. He divides his time among this house, another on Minnesota's Moose Lake and stops on his lecture tours. The Minneapolis house feels cleansed of ghosts and even gentrified. A poet named Louis Jenkins (author of a splendid collection called All Tangled Up with the Living and other books) is doing some work around the place for Bly and emerges from the basement from...
...working royals are patrons of British charities, but how active they are varies greatly. Diana's profile has come into focus in the past four-odd years. She favors groups that help the underprivileged and the maimed. In the cutthroat funding competitions of the charity world, her combination of regal presence and natural flair is rare, and golden. To Margaret Jay, director of the National AIDS Trust, Diana's great contribution is in "influencing attitudes. Her speech saying AIDS involved everyone, not just marginal groups, was worth hundreds of millions in ads." Contends Zelda West-Meads of the marriage counseling...