Word: regents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eight years, followers fruitlessly scoured the sect's treasure house and monastery in Rumtek, India, for clues; pressure mounted on the four high lamas acting as interim regents. Finally, a regent named Tai Situ had a brainstorm. For 13 years, he had worn a prayer amulet given to him by the late leader, which he had never opened. Now, he says, "it suddenly struck me, the message could be here!" And lo, it was; and conveniently specific too: the child would be found "to the north in the east of a land of snow ((Tibet))/ A country where divine thunder...
...with recurring flashbacks of the music from the concerto, she cannot forget the tragedy that was her past life. Throughout the film different people seek her aid. These include Lucille (Charlotte Very), an erotic dancer who lives downstairs from her, and Olivier (Benoit Regent); Patrice's former associate and a one-time fling of Julie's. Refusing to be drawn from her self-imposed solitude, Julie only concedes to help when an emergency arises with Lucille and she must go to the strip club where the dancer works...
...larger role of his brother, the Prince of Wales, Nick Sampson plays the pampered slug of an heir to perfection. The Prince can't wait to throw his dad into the madhouse and declare himself Regent. Anticipating this eventuality, he declares, "from now on, style is going to be everything...
LAST APRIL, ROGER CLINTON, WHO IS PARtial to motley Caribbean drawstring pants, squirmed into a tuxedo and showed up at the Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel for a fancy fund raiser honoring his brother Bill. It was, in a way, a coming-out party for Roger. He was seated at the head table, and he led his band, called Politics, before some of Hollywood's established entertainers. But then it came time for Bill to speak. He told the story of a man he had met in Northern California who had supported him because he was out of a job, living...
...inherited many of his father's gadfly, curmudgeonly qualities, and when he started railing against the ugliness of London's skyline and new buildings that looked like carbuncles, he struck a chord in the common man. This month he opened his own Institute for Architecture near London's Regent's Park, which will offer courses toward a degree in the field and will serve as a gathering point for conferences...