Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intricacy with which lines are drawn. The prints were also used in order to display political or social allegories, much like the political cartoons of today's newspapers. All in all, the French world was thrilled to finally have an artistic movement that encapsulated them, and not the royal or religious scenes they were used...
...haven't met them, but we're very aware of them. We met Royal Crown Revue in '92, when I first joined. We went down to L.A. and played at this club called Palomino, we opened for them, and that was the first band I remember seeing, other than us, that was playing swing. And even back then they were really into the look, and being more of a "purist" swing kind of sound. I think they're great, and their guitarist is the real virtuoso of the new swing scene. We've also done shows with Big Bad Voodoo...
...first of six excerpts from Penny Junor's Charles: Villain or Victim?, due out later this month from HarperCollins Publishers. The irony is that Junor, author of an earlier pro-Charles biography, is once again trying to put the Prince squarely in the victim camp, but somehow the royal carfuffle has done precisely the opposite. HOW COULD HE DO THIS TO DIANA? thundered the Sunday Express...
...supporters came roaring back. THE SMEARING OF A PRINCESS, read one headline; Diana's friend Rosa Monckton, her brother Charles Spencer and the Duchess of York all made statements bemoaning that anyone would accuse the Princess of wrongdoing now that she's dead. "Has Charles no shame?" wonders another royal biographer, Anthony Holden. Charles and Camilla were driven to the unprecedented move of issuing a joint statement insisting that they had not cooperated with Junor nor asked their friends...
...psychologists call pricing behavior even in my wife is the Las Vegas custom of emphasizing how much any new hotel costs--a custom I think of as conspicuous capitalization. If a hotel boasts about costing $1.6 billion, it's no wonder that my wife--who, like many people of royal birth brought up in middle-class American families through mix-ups at the hospital, prefers down pillows--might be inclined to bounce her fist off a hard rubber pillow and comment, "The money must be somewhere else...