Word: regalness
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...taken to a tremendous hall. Dozens of men (women being strictly segregated) in identical black robes and white headdresses were seated along the walls, immobile and silent. What seemed like 100 yards away on a slightly raised pedestal sat King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud, aquiline of feature, regal of bearing. He rose as I entered, forcing all the princes and sheiks to follow suit in a flowing balletlike movement of black and white. He took one step toward me; I had to traverse the rest of the way. I learned later that his taking a step forward...
...beach. The telephoto-lens pictures, taken by enterprising photographers from a nearby beach, were plastered all over the Sun, Britain's largest selling daily, and the Daily Star. It was a picture of a standing Diana in a strapless bikini, revealing her gently rounded royal tummy, that offended regal sensibilities most. The next day, the Sun editors offered an obsequious apology and, to show how sorry they were, reprinted the picture seven inches deep on the front page...
...hedgehogs required thick cloth gloves; those cataloguing protozoa developed eyestrain after weeks of staring intently into microscopes; those working with uranium samples had to wear special devices to monitor levels of radiation; and those tallying mammals preserved in alcohol experienced queasy stomachs. "It doesn't smell like Chivas Regal in those collections," sniffed one researcher...
Perhaps, too, the cat, regal and precise, aloof and alone, reflects the preferred-or enforced-situation of the record 23% of American households where single adults dwell. "Cats are a perfect way out of urban alienation," says Dunlop. And behind bars, the cat softens hard-time sentences. Some prisoners at the Lorton Reformatory in Virginia keep up to five cats at once. Says Charles E. ("Itchy") Richardson, 30, who is serving ten to 40 years for burglary: "Cats teach you what some dudes down here can't understand. They give you love. They don't talk back...
Having learned the first rule of married life (it doubles the bills), Prince Charles, 32, has proclaimed a regal solution: a 50% raise. Charles-unlike the rest of his family-receives no allowance from the British government. As the Duke of Cornwall, Charles splits the duchy's revenues fifty-fifty with the Treasury; last year he collected ?275,000 tax free (more than $500,000). As the result of a new Treasury agreement, Charles, with an 18th century home in Gloucestershire and a suite in Kensington Palace to keep up, will now pocket 75% of the revenues...