Word: regaling
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...parties, the pet hawk that once landed on Mrs. Averell Harriman's wig. She was the dinner-party cutup who once, in mock jealousy at the attention a high Government official was paying another woman, tossed a candleholder at him?to the obvious distaste of Jacqueline Kennedy, the regal sister-in-law with whom she had so little in common...
...first visit to the States, I was taken there and, like Little Audrey, I laughed and laughed. I have seen the wonders of the Far East and marveled at the Pyramids. I have champagned at the Folies and, in the days of our Empire, flown in a Vice-Regal plane. But nothing, simply nothing will ever surpass the sheer deliciousness of my first evening down on the Block...
...vice-regal...
Small wonder Rudolf is driven into the arms of a regal young noblewoman named Maria (Catherine Deneuve). The empassioned lovers flee to Mayerling, the royal hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods, where they eventually commit joint suicide. Before he leaves, Rudolf resigns his princely inheritance by throwing his ring in the Emperor's face. Line: "So much for your Holy Roman Empire...
...possibility of a regal drama is lost amidst this ragged anthology of styles and postures. In theatrical tradition, the fortunes of king and queen were the human situation writ large. In Goldman's hands, the process is reversed; Henry and Eleanor are reduced to a TV-sized version of the sovereigns next door, their epic struggles shrunk to sitch-com squabbles, and their children mere refractions of their mean spirits...