Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 9, a team of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, or 'Mounties'--the Canadian F.B.I.) attempted to board the Spanish fishing trawler Estai. When the attempt failed, the Spanish cut their fishing nets and attempted to flee. After a four-hour chase, the Canadian patrol vessel sent a burst of machine-gunfire over the bow of the Estai. The boat was seized and turned toward New-foundland, where the skipper will be charged under Canadian conservation law and the crew flown home...
Transatlantic equivalences of a different sort are the point-counterpoint of Richard Nelson's bracing New England, which has just completed a successful run at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Barbican Pit. Nelson, a New York-based American, portrays a ferociously articulate family of Britons who live in various parts of the U.S. Assembled in a Connecticut farmhouse in the aftermath of their father's suicide, they ostentatiously deplore the English penchant for putting down America, then in the next breath rail at their big, dumb, PC-riddled adopted homeland...
Spain will have its first royal wedding in almost 90 years on Saturday, when Princess Elena Maria Isabel Domenica de Silos de Borbon y Grecia will marry Jaime Rafael Ramos Maria de Marichalar y Saenz de Tejada. But what will they call the kids?MONEY
CHEERS WENT UP IN FUTURES MARKETS everywhere when the news broke of Leeson's detention in Germany last Thursday after his Royal Brunei airliner landed in Frankfurt after a 12-hour flight. Leeson had left Kuala Lumpur to rendezvous with his wife Lisa in the Malaysian resort town of Kota Kinabalu, and there, after plunking down $1,600 in cash for seats in the economy section, he boarded the plane in his own name. Malaysian authorities just missed catching up with the Leesons. But reports of their flight immediately circulated abroad. In Frankfurt, German police, carrying pictures of the couple...
...appeal is not primarily sexual; the glitter and sartorial outrage conceal an ordinary, football-loving guy with an extraordinary love of the limelight. For all the tabloid titters, England realizes this; it has virtually made John its official Ambassador of Fun. He has performed for all branches of the Royal Family, and is a favorite dancing partner of Princess Diana. But John says he doesn't enjoy going to most parties anymore "because people are off their face. I stand there holding my glass of water and realize that I used to be like that, or worse...