Word: royal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...analyzing the institution of the French royal mistress during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, I have had to combat with skepticism from those who dismissed the project as frivolous. At the beginning of the fall semester, when thesis topics were the stuff of dinner table conversation, mine always provoked the most interested and amused responses...
...really didn't matter that I had to return it. I had taken my notes and I had all the information I would need about how the popular press and the popular Parisian press viewed royal mistresses in general and Madame du Barry in particular. More importantly, however, I had been able to hold a piece of the reality I am trying to reconstruct...
...newspaper revealed that he had visited a West German strip club and shared a drink with an "exotic dancer." Eight months later Mulroney's Fisheries Minister was forced out for allowing tainted tuna to be sold to Canadian consumers. Mulroney's Communications Minister resigned from the Cabinet while the Royal Canadian Mounted Police looked into irregularities in his campaign spending, then returned after he was cleared...
...England, the Royal Court Theatre is currently performing the play Perdition, which deals with Holocaust victims. Filled with historical errors, Perdition claims that during World War II Hungarian Zionist leaders collaborated with the Germans in sending Jews to the camps in order to justify the creation of a Jewish state after...
...original work is almost obliterated by the new context. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production of Berg's Lulu in Munich sets the action in a four-story madhouse with Wedekind's tawdry story played out in front of an onstage audience of gaping mummies. To be sure, London's Royal Opera and the Vienna State Opera remain committed to traditional opera staged in traditional ways, sung by the same coterie of jet- bound stars who appear at the Met. And the old style still has its rewards; the Royal's Der Rosenkavalier, a rococo dream handsomely sung and lovingly...