Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he launches into one of his droll, deadpan stories, Brady's Buddha-like face tries to conceal an impish grin, with all the success of a novice poker player hiding a royal flush. He relishes answering questions by formulating quotable one-liners and piling adjectives upon metaphors. Occasionally, when he crosses the line from irrepressibility to irreverence, Brady gets into trouble. Once, aboard the campaign plane as it flew over a Louisiana forest fire, he gleefully shouted: "Killer trees! Killer trees!" The reference to Reagan's campaign gaffe about the contribution of trees to air pollution grounded...
...time-honored gentleman's agreement between the Crown and the Fourth Estate: when the royal family wintered at Sandringham, the press stayed on Fleet Street...
...electronic sting with international repercussions: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with the FBI to catch the criminals. By tracing phone calls, they soon got their man. Or rather boys. The culprits, only 13 years old, were four clever students at New York's Dalton School, a posh private institution on Manhattan's Upper East Side...
BECAUSE OF HIS FAMILIARITY with Tito, Djilas elaborately portrays Tito's love of power and the adulation, the command, and the high living available to him. The details--he took over some of the king's villas and even some of the royal customs, such as being godfather to the ninth child in every family--are objectionable, but these personal weaknesses cannot alone destroy a country. Ignoring the forces inside and outside of the country can lead to the country's deterioration, and, Djilas concedes, Tito cannot be accused of this mistake. For Djilas sees Tito as a "politican...
...Arabic, become involved in her country's arts and environmental movement and, after a miscarriage, borne her husband a son, Prince Hamzah, now nine months old. Shortly after posing next to an oil portrait of Nur at Amman's Nadwa Palace for the photograph shown here, the royal couple announced that another child-the King's tenth-is expected next spring...