Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause of all the jubilation was the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who was reluctant for her husband to take the throne in the first place, but is, as the London Times declared, probably the most popular royal personage of all time. To the British she symbolizes more than the monarchy: she is the storybook grandmother, loving and merry, always ready with a Band-Aid or a bag of sweets. Reports TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo...
...YORK--Though you could tell something was up around Madison Square Garden this past weekend, you probably wouldn't have guessed that the president of the United States, the royal court and the pretenders to the throne were on their way into town. Hotels up and down Seventh Avenue gleamed a bit more brightly and familiar network faces beaming at ActionCams drew crowds of "Hi Mom"-ers, but most of the people, bicycles, carts and cars just stumbled along in the humidity, grumbling and snarling...
Richard also loves dressing up to different costumes, whether a severe coat or bright red cape. When he hankers for the throne but pretends piously to reject sit, he finally takes off a dun-colored clerical cassock and turns it inside out to reveal--hilariously--an instantaneous royal-purple velvet gown...
Large institutional investors, like pension funds and insurance companies, have recently been casting covetous glances at big-city office real estate because they see it as an often better investment than the stocks and bonds they hold. In January the Royal Dutch/Shell pension fund paid $136 million for the Celanese Building in New York City, and in February the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association bought Manhattan's Seagram Building for $85 million. The Equitable Life Assurance Society two months ago acquired the AmeriFirst Building in Miami for $52 million, and the Prudential Insurance Co., often rumored...
...next 54 years after that carry-on part, Peter Sellers strove for the role. When he died of a heart attack last week in London, he was still officially untitled, but he had more than earned his royal mirthright. In a career that spanned four decades, Sellers played a German scientist, an R.A.F. officer and the President of the U.S. in Dr. Strangelove; a Cockney Marxist in I'm All Right, Jack; an Indian doctor in The Millionairess; a French detective in A Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated...