Word: royalities
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...European art. There was landscape before Ruisdael and landscape after him; his vision exerted a subtle, intrusive pressure on Dutch, French and English painters well into the 19th century. The idea that landscape did not have to be "moralized" as allegory or treated merely as a background to royal portraits or Crucifixions-that it could be seen and loved for its own sake, as the repository of unburnished natural truth-was widely confirmed by Ruisdael's work...
...successor to the often mercurial Evans, a product of the working class, Murdoch chose an irreproachably Tory blueblood: Times Deputy Editor Charles Douglas-Home, 44, a nephew of former Conservative Prime Minister Lord Home. Douglas-Home was schooled at Eton and served in the Royal Scots Greys regiment...
...never was, Ronstadt is dead on her feet. She leans her head on Smith's shoulder between takes. All the pirates are on hand, and so are the major general's daughters. George Rose, the major general, a veteran Shakespearean actor trained at the Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Theater, is never out of character and never needs a retake. Kevin Kline, the pirate king, has a fencing shirt with a decolletage that makes matrons of good reputation go googly...
...meeting of perhaps the two most photographed women in the world, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, 50, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 20. Taylor was in London to perform in her Broadway hit, The Little Foxes. Diana turned up in the royal box of the Victoria Palace Theater to catch Queen Liz in action. At the end of the show, the Princess trooped backstage. "Thank you for a lovely performance," said Diana. When asked for a rundown of their chat, Taylor was uncharacteristically closemouthed. "I was more than thrilled to meet her," said Liz, "but I never discuss private conversations...
Salt taxes variously solidified or helped dissolve the power of governments. For centuries the French people were forced to buy all their salt from royal depots. The gabelle, or salt tax, was so high during the reign of Louis XVI that it became a major grievance and eventually helped ignite the French Revolution. As late as 1930, in protest against the high British tax on salt in India, Mahatma Gandhi led a mass pilgrimage of his followers to the seaside to make then-own salt...