Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rapid, government-directed modernization helped topple the Shah of Iran, and has disrupted other traditional societies. Saudi Arabia has advantages, however, that should enable it to avoid a similar disaster. Unlike Iran, the population is culturally homogeneous, and shares more closely its own brand of Islamic religion. Moreover, the royal family is closely allied with the religious leaders and popular as well with the rest of the people. Nor is the kingdom beset by a teeming urban center with an underclass ripe for revolt. Observes one U.S. expert: "You really don't have the same economic strains...
...racing circles has it that a Thoroughbred will always return to its best form. The Royal Shakespeare Company is certainly a Thoroughbred. After a stumbling start with Henry IV, the R.S.C. returns to top form at its new home, the Barbican Theater, by making the rarely performed All's Well That Ends Well an evening of enchantment...
...this month all the world knows about this sultry young woman. Timing the "leak" perfectly with the birth of Prince William, future King of England. CBS let slip that it will air a feature film later this year entitled Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance. Shooting has begun on what will surely be a landmark in modern movie-making. The twentieth century fairy-tale come true, captured for all America in prime time, maybe on cable someday. And who will star as Diana, the shy kindergarten teacher-turned-princess and proud mother? None other than Catherine Oxenburg...
...then, like any other new parents at St. Mary's, Charles, 33, and Diana, 20, were left alone with their baby, Monday's boy, fair of face and hair, blue-eyed, 7 lbs. 1½ oz., born 328 days after the royal wedding...
Monaco's royal family has remained blasé. After all, "she has known him for about ten years," said a spokesman for the Rainiers somewhat ambiguously, "just as she knows the racing drivers and other tennis players in Monte Carlo...