Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King Kong receives your royal treatment: cover story, color photographs-the works. The death and career of Edith Evans are succinctly reported in 22 lines. TIME must, of course, follow the best principles of commercial journalism. Still, I occasionally long for the more perfect world that owes, and gives proper and just attention...
...Royal "We" called on The Clock Maker (an unbelievably pretentious bore) to get out of town before sundown a month ago. Yet the sun keeps setting on this tale of a clock tinkerer whose son turns terrorist. Phillipe Noiret is still quivering with emotion for two hours, and anything more has failed to materialize. Director Taverneir is content to focus on Noiret's face forever--who need dialogue, plot, or motivations? Apparently not Taverneir. Noiret has an occasional temper tantrum, which might in some circles pass for character development. We, however, are still not buying...
...There are other things to do, and it would be rather selfish of me if I remained locked away here," says Britain's Prince Charles, offering some lofty motives for leaving the Royal Navy on Dec. 15 (after five years of service). Now the commanding officer of a 360-ton mine hunter named the H.M.S. Bronington, Charles will quit ruling the waves in six weeks to take charge of preparations for the Silver Jubilee, next year's celebration of Queen Elizabeth's 25th year on the throne. His leave-taking will mark...
...encounter between the Queen and a Scotch preacher named James MacGregor. In a service for Victoria at Crathie Church near Balmoral Castle, MacGregor appealed to the Almighty to "send down his wisdom on the Queen's ministers-who sorely need it." The plea caused some commotion in the royal pew. Writes Historian Charles: "Queen Victoria went purple with suppressed laughter...
...Irishman educated in England, Childers was a driven and complex idealist whose life ended in front of a firing squad near Dublin in 1922. Along with his Bostonian wife Dorothy, Childers had run arms into Ire land by sailboat before World War I. After serving with distinction in the Royal Navy, he again took up the cause of Irish liberty. Childers, in fact, pressed so hard for total Irish independence after the Free State compromise that he became an embarrassment to the Irish patriots and was done away with by the I.R.A. itself. Yet he shook hands with each...