Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...factual truth of this can be assessed by anyone who visits the Reynolds retrospective now running at London's Royal Academy. Reynolds' paintings have long since faded, mimicking his reputation. "Sir Sploshua," as others called him for his generous and Rubenesque handling of wet paint surfaces, had an imp of fakery lodged in his breast. He was determined to produce, for his clientele of the great, the tone and mellowed appearance of European seicento art. To this end he would whip up weird mayonnaises of wax, turps, asphaltum, eggs, resin and oil. "Varnished three times with different varnishes, and egged...
When she turned 21 last month, she already had claims to fame as a model, fashion designer and royal. So what next on the wish list for the world's most thoroughly modern celebrity princess? Well, gosh, why not try to cut a record? Sounds like a giggle, but no joke, Monaco's Princess Stephanie now has a modest hit record in Europe. Stephanie reports that her latest career turn "came about completely by accident" when a friend at a recording studio casually suggested that she try a voice test. It went so well that she agreed to make...
...only real person featured on a special version of Spitting Image, the weekly satirical show of puppets and circumstances that is one of Britain's most talked-about TV programs. The two-year-old series is either adored or abhorred for such presentations as a Christmastime satire of the royal family regally addled by holiday cheer. Last week work was finished on two new made-for-America segments about "The Faking of the President," to be aired by NBC in late spring. U.S. audiences, says Frost, "will either love it or wonder what the hell is going on." Probably both...
Jiwa contends that those responsible for the crash are a cabal of Vancouver- based Sikh extremists. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, says Jiwa, have identified at least a dozen people responsible for the explosion and are only tying up loose ends before moving...
...Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill paid that celebrated tribute to the Royal Air Force fighter pilots who won the 48-day Battle of Britain in 1940, thus thwarting plans for a Nazi invasion of England. The backbone of the R.A.F. was the agile Spitfire, the speedy (364 m.p.h.), quick-turning, British-built fighter plane that literally flew circles around enemy aircraft...