Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Derby Royal Infirmary hospital said it was treating 27 casualties, none critical, most of them suffering fractures. It said it expected 30 more...
Biles is chief researcher for a royal commission appointed last year to delve into the phenomenon. Last week the commission released an interim report attempting to explain the causes of Aboriginal deaths in custody and offer some prescriptions to prevent them. "Australia must know the truth behind the deaths," said the chairman of the commission, Justice James Muirhead...
Peter Hall neither writes plays nor acts in them, yet no history of the postwar British stage could run much longer than a paragraph without mentioning his name. Founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960, successor to Laurence Olivier as director of the National Theater from 1973 to last summer, he is the embodiment of the subsidized institutions that make Britain the envy of most U.S. drama fans. Even shows that bring Hall to Broadway -- including The Homecoming (1967) and Amadeus (1981), which won him Tony Awards for best director -- often originate in the nonprofit houses...
Since last summer, Charles Laquidara has interrupted his rock-'n'-roll rap on Boston's WBCN-FM to urge commuters to boycott Shell Oil. Pointing out that an affiliate of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group supplies fuel to South Africa's army and police, the deejay has persuaded more than 1,000 listeners to cut up their Shell credit cards...
...dolls' house as a gesture of gratitude and loyalty after World War I. In Queen Mary's Dolls' House (Abbeville; 191 pages; $35), Mary Stewart-Wilson opens to our view the tiniest stately home in England. The empire's finest artists, craftsmen and manufacturers contributed to the miniature royal household: Doulton sent a gilded china service for 18 (including 22 serving and covered vegetable dishes); Waygood Otis built two working elevators; and Cartier made seven clocks and two barometers. A.E. Housman, who allowed some of his poems to be copied small for the 200-book library, commented: "I selected...