Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week drew to an end, bargaining on a new contract continued at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. For GM, time is critical. Production has been halted on three Pontiac models produced solely in Canada: the 6000, Grand Prix and Bonneville. GM concedes that Canadian-made parts are already in short supply at nine U.S. assembly plants, and shutdowns in those operations could come as early as this week. For want of a sun visor, a whole car can be lost, and the strike may soon begin costing GM $30 million a week. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported...
...even her brief forays into public view made grown men gush. "She's got the whole world to go to," exclaimed Lexington Mayor Scotty Baesler, who greeted the Royal Air Force VC10 at the airport, "and she's coming to Lexington!" Ever a Briton, the Queen carried her own black brolly through the drizzle and immediately decamped to Lane's End Farm, the 1,400-acre estate of her host, Horse Breeder William Parish III. A Humble Oil heir, Parish met the Queen while in England for a polo match. Indeed, the theme of the trip...
...house lights dim, wind chimes fill the night, and a lady appears at her cello to play a wistful air. Welcome to empyrean, where wit is a state of grace and the seraphim move in minute, minuet steps. No mortals need apply here, in this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away...
...tones of gold of various tints, green-gold, yellow-gold, pink-gold, and in the same way bronze, copper, in short starting from citron yellow all the way to a dull, dark yellow color like a heap of threshed corn. And this combined with the blue-from the deepest royal blue of the water to the blue of the forget-me-nots, cobalt . .." Some artists' letters are unrevealing about their work; others mythologize it. Van Gogh's correspondence was unique: no painter has ever taken his readers through the processes of his art so thoroughly, so modestly...
...dramatic, but then it's difficult to visualize from the third story of the New York Times a massive explosion in the middle of a clear autumn night in a provincial hotel, which came so perilously near to killing the entire British cabinet. It seems as unreal as the Royal Wedding...