Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...north. Protesters included students free on New Year's vacations, young people out of work, housewives and others fearful of a new round of government austerity measures that would mean hikes in food and fuel prices. Before a precarious order was restored, the government had called out the royal army, cordoned off three northern towns, closed the University of Marrakesh, and imposed a tight news blackout that made firsthand coverage impossible. Official estimates put the death toll at 29 and the wounded at 114. Foreign diplomats called the figures conservative...
...abdomen. From the archduke's throat a thin stream of blood spurted onto the face of an aide. "For God's sake, what has happened to you?" the archduchess cried out to her stricken husband. "Then she sank down from her seat," the aide recalled. "His Royal Highness said, 'Soferl, Soferl! Don't die. Live for my children.' " The aide grasped the slumping archduke by the collar and asked if he were in great pain. The dying archduke said, "It is nothing," then repeated that six or seven times until the words turned into...
...particular woman and, lately, no special man, but this time there are two eminent females, 1983 World Champion Rosalynn Sumners and 1982 World Champion Elaine Zayak, as well as the world's best male skater for the past three years, Scott Hamilton. A compact strongman, Hamilton should be the royal presence in these games and is thought to have a Heiden's lock on the first U.S. men's singles gold medal since David Jenkins...
...burst upon Broadway in the 1920s, a charismatic, rather sinister Yale dropout and former pressagent convinced that he could produce and direct plays better than anybody else. He seemed to be right. By the age of 28, Harris had four hits running in the same year, including The Royal Family and The Front Page; he was earning $40,000 a week and was acclaimed as the Wonder Boy of Broadway. "His self-belief was hypnotic," said Playwright S.N. Behrman, who got his start working for Harris...
Lack of teachers to learn from and of great paintings to see: such problems crimped the style of American painters or sent them, like Benjamin West (the Pennsylvania prodigy who became the second president of the Royal Academy) into European careers. Often the homespun Doric is better than the mail-order Ionic. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) was no Poussin, but his groups of flatboatmen and river traders, leaning on crates with the air of Arcadian shepherds on a ruin whilst floating through the delicate silver haze of the Missouri, are often genuinely classical in their construction and repose...