Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, once Hayley Mills begins to sing "Getting to Know You," the effect is lost. Mills plays the main character, Anna Leonowens, a widowed teacher who is brought to Bangkok by the King of Siam (Vee Talmadge), to educate the royal children (a group of adorable new talents ranging in ages from...
...King appear to disagree over everything, from the social position of women in Siam, a position that Anna likens to slavery (a theme further developed in the musical) to the roval tradition of bowing before the King. Anna stomps about in righteous anger while the King barks his royal orders until by the end of the musical they finally,predictably, fall in love...
...inventors of the Jaipur foot seem a mismatched pair. Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, 70, an orthopedic surgeon, is a fellow of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, while his collaborator, an artisan named Ram Chandra, reached only the fourth grade in Jaipur. Their paths first crossed more than 30 years ago at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur. There, Sethi was helping his orthopedic patients wobble down the corridor on their crutches, and Chandra was teaching lepers to make handicrafts...
...Windsors seem single-mindedly determined to carry on a role that makes a true difference to very few people. Indeed, we shouldn't expect too much from the royal family, and this highlights why Princess Diana was so special. I hope her two sons have their mother's independent and altruistic nature. ROBERT MACRAY San Francisco...
...there remains among all the Diana madness one remarkable, overlooked story. Remember how the Diana week started? With an outpouring of popular anger against the paparazzi and the press (for pursuing Diana). And remember how the week ended? With an outpouring of popular anger against the Queen and the royal family (for not sufficiently mourning Diana...