Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canadian Ace Billy Bishop shot down 72 enemy aircraft in World War I, 25 in an astonishing ten-day burst. Baron Manfred von Richthofen was first in kills with 80. The irony is that Bishop was not a very skillful flyer and received severe reprimands for cracking up Royal Flying Corps planes...
What a vision awaited visitors to the Royal Palace in Caserta, Italy. Traipsing through the gardens with Actress Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Director Roberto Rossellini, was a familiar white-robed figure with the distinctive bearing of Pope John Paul II. Young girls genuflected as the Pontiff passed. A sightseeing nun fainted dead away. After all, His Holiness was at that moment supposed to be traveling in Africa 3,000 miles away. A papal miracle? No, a cinematic satire, Il Papocchio (rough translation: Papal Mess). The Italian film features Actor Manfred Freiberger, a look-alike for the Polish...
Midland's takeovers are partly catchupmanship. The bank has been slow to follow the trend to international branch banking, as well as to join the brigade of British bankers in bowlers entering the lucrative California market. Since 1968, Midland's rivals-Barclays, Lloyds, Standard Chartered and the Royal Bank of Scotland-have all established offices there...
...that begin and end this speech are more striking: "Why, why, why, why do we let these women bleed us to death? . . . No, there's nothing left for it, me boy, but to let yourself be butchered by the women." In 1980 Anger seems most like a battle royal of the sexes...
...Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight characters only make cameo appearances in Stomping Ground. They are the scenery Hamill uses to show off Tommy Ryan, a royal lowlife who took his business degree and put it to vicious use. Ryan uses his women--"A man needs sex, has to have his pipes cleaned"--and he uses his friends--saved from a service revolver-death by a giant sidekick, Ryan orders him and his fiancee killed the next day for fear they'll "sing." He is a nasty bastard--when his lover laughs at him, he leaves in a rage...