Word: regaling
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...personally selected Jane Mynors' nursery school in west London, but still could not help asking Mynors, "You will look after him?" For his part, Prince William, 3, maintained his regal composure last week as he became the first heir to the British throne to attend kindergarten. Arriving with the obviously anxious Prince Charles and Princess Diana, William politely shook hands with his teacher and turned obediently to wave a hand at the horde of journalists. Then, without fuss or fidget, the royal pupil disappeared into the basement classroom, where he began an introductory curriculum of paper and clay modeling, painting...
Neophyte entertainers seem drawn to the machines. "The teenagers love singing Billy Joel and Bette Midler tunes," says Musician Irene Regal, who with Husband Mike takes a Starmaker brand karaoke along to gigs at New York bar mitzvahs and parties. Properly lubricated, adults like to giggle through a moonstruck verse or two of a ballad. "It's the only way to go," says Cathy Ruggieri, 40, a hair stylist in Stony Brook, N.Y., who uses her $600 model at home and at her salon. "It makes you sound so good. I wasn't that outgoing before...
...this ain't All Well's That Ends Well; after every ones' hearts are tied for eternity, the fickle finger of dramatic fate (offstage) pushes the King of France off the ledge of mortality. Since the royal good time girl must needs become a regal career women, it's Cupid who gets the shaft; as No. 1 Courtier Berowne (Gregory Welch) exclaims woefully, "our wooing doth not end like an old play, Jack hath not Jill...
...folksiness. "She is not the least bit conceited. She behaves very naturally, she ate what we ate," reports Marina Fausti, fashion editor of Moda. "She was very nice with everybody," says Gilles Tapie, who has done the best Stephanie photos so far. He caught a nice kind of regal raunch for a cover and bathing-suit layout in Elle, and reflects, "She's short for a model, and she's not a beautiful girl. She's muscled in the arms . . . She could be a boy with her short hair. But when she's in a bathing suit in front...
...taking a point of view is to underline the play's presumption that history is made by men, not social forces: he ends many scenes with one or two figures frozen in silhouette. The acting is mostly serviceable, with three happy exceptions: John Heard as Prince Hal is unmistakably regal even in his giddiest antics; Bruce McGill rockets with energy as Hotspur; and John McMartin proves imperiously perfect as King Henry IV but insufficiently charismatic, if cunning, as Falstaff. W.A.H...