Word: regalization
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...regal acknowledgment of British inflation, Queen Elizabeth II ordered a 6.4% pay hike for her staff of 200, the second cost-of-living increase in Buckingham Palace wages in five years...
...gamely, was second. Noureddin, a fast-finishing long shot, was third. Silky was a sad twelfth. The red comet from California had fizzled out in the gaudy glare of the Derby. The hangover from the carnival still belonged to a brief, bright legend; the real horse race and the regal $118,000 went to the best horse...
...acquired a rhetoric than that he had misapplied it. His literary conceits, his verbal arabesques suffocate anything truly alive. Half don, half dandy, Fry was to find himself in mannerism rather than substance, in the mocking wink rather than the observing eye. Despite Katharine Cornell's regal efforts as Pharaoh's sister, or trumpet-voiced Anthony Quayle's as Moses, the Egypt of The Firstborn is mummified. Only Boris Aronson's sets evoke something once living and still large...
Admitting that The Heroic Encounter is a personal interpretation, Dorothy Norman (whose work was in part financed by the Bollingen Foundation) digs deep to find the meaning of the symbols artists have used through the ages. She finds the beasts of art to be two-faced. The regal lion she equates both with the sun and man's consciousness, as well as with "the will to power, stemming from ego, pride . . . destructive forces to be faced, overcome, transmuted." The powerful, majestic bull she sees as lunar, the great progenitor who nonetheless partakes of the dark unconscious and "the lower...
Bequest to Venice. Now 59, with her hair died raven black and fingernails painted silver, Peggy Guggenheim is a flamboyant yet somehow regal character, whom Venetians call "L'Ultima Dogaressa" (The Last Duchess). Gondoliers have made a fortune ferrying her guests and visitors (Peggy herself travels in her own private gondola or fast speedboat), who come to sit on her zebra-striped couches, gaze at the display of modern paintings, constructions and sculptures. Infectiously gay and gossipy, Peggy Guggenheim has made her palazzo not only one of Venice's institutions but a crossroads of the artistic world...