Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Catherine Chatas Royal Oak, Mich...
...also painted people, and his fussy, glass-smooth portraits of his royal patrons, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, are among the most obsequious images of British royalty ever done by a court artist...
...dogs made him. Sometimes they were royal dogs, like Victoria's spaniel Dash, or Albert's black greyhound Eos. Sometimes they were proletarian lurchers and terriers. Almost always, however, they were moralized. The "pathetic fallacy," the somewhat tiresome habit of affixing human feelings and traits to animals or plants, reached its height in Victorian England. It was Landseer's use of it, along with his extraordinarily realistic observation of fur, fin and feather, that made him a demigod of popular culture...
...expected, there were a number of protests by Welsh nationalists who have long sought to break the country's 445-year-old union with Britain. As the royal Rolls approached the 13th century castle city of Caernarvon, a young woman leaped forward, spraying the car with white paint before she was whisked away by some of the 600 Special Branch policemen guarding the prince and princess. Outside the castle, demonstrators chanted, "Charles, go home...
Last year Binn's company made about $220 million worth of deals, many involving major corporations. Among his clients: Rolls-Royce, Uni-royal and Chesebrough-Pond's. One swap involves the Cosco Chemicals Co. of Indianapolis, a division of Kidde, Inc. Cosco is boosting its production of cleansing products by about 20%, trading the cleansers to Binn for $500,000 worth of services including TV and radio advertising time. Binn plans to trade the cleansers to Hilton and Sheraton hotels, receiving in return room spaces plus food and bar credits, which he will offer to other Atwood Richards...