Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason for these birds' effectiveness is the genius of their leader, played by former Royal Ballet principal Adam Cooper. His Swan possesses a witchy, sinewy quality that fascinates the Prince and leads him to yearn for personal freedom. As the night continues, the Swan gains the young man's trust. He has, as it were, seen magic and believes...
...creation of the known deeds of the astronomer Mason and the surveyor Dixon. The line did not constitute their first collaboration, and Pynchon devotes more than 250 pages to the work they did together before arriving in the New World to take up the job commissioned by the British Royal Society. It slowly becomes clear that this story is not about a triumph of 18th century scientific methods, which Pynchon explains in elaborate detail, but rather about a tragic desecration, a deadly abstraction imposed upon land once natural and truly free. Mason and Dixon cannot foresee the bloodshed that will...
This fact hit me in the final scene of Shine, which is a true story, when the aged prodigy, whose name is David Helfgott, visits his late father's grave site. David says he feels nothing, and rightly so. His father was a royal bastard, forcing him to remain in his native Australia after being offered a scholarship to study in America and attempting the same strategy upon his acceptance at the Royal Academy in London...
...spent last Saturday afternoon in low-key fashion, her evening was really something to talk about. The high school senior from Sidwell Friends was taken on a whirlwind tour of all the Square's hottest locales. The highlight? A raging party at the A.D. final club. Adorned in a "royal blue tight sweater, bootleg pants and, of course, boots," as The Crimson described her attire, Chelsea chatted away with some of this country's best and brightest elitist, womanizing snobs. Dad must have been so proud...
Clinton--fashionably clad for the evening in a royal blue tight sweater, bootleg pants and, of course, boots--was taken to various hot-spots around Harvard Square, including a party at the A.D. final club...