Word: royals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These frustrations burst out last week at a remarkable gathering at the royal court in Amman, when some 160 prominent professional and religious leaders pelted King Hussein with questions about why Jordan had not broken relations with the U.S. over the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They went so far as to ask why Jordan was not willing to permit democratic institutions to function. The King handled his interrogators skillfully. To identify with, if not coopt, Palestinian rage over events in Lebanon, the King called for the creation of a People's Army, a sort of militia of all Jordanians...
However, Donna Nowak, who is seeking advice from her lawyer about how to file for the bankruptcy of her framing and print shop in nearby Royal Oak, has "mixed feelings" about the President's policy. Says she: "Sometimes I think it's terrible, but other times I think it's doing a lot of good because it's forcing us to take a lot of the fat out of business." Paul Kampka, a mailman in Warren, Mich., reports that the people to whom he delivers letters "are mad, real mad." Then he adds: "Personally, I think...
There on the quayside, drawn up like grenadiers in gleaming royal-blue livery, stand the 17 cars of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens. Waxed mirrorbright, they make up the longest (400 meters) passenger train in all Europe. Its eleven wagons-lits, three restaurant cars and bar car, all first class, can accommodate 194 passengers; there are two cars for the crew of 30. It may be the greatest display of grandeur the Boulonnais have seen since Napoleon and his army gathered there in 1805 for an invasion of England that never took place...
DIED. Patrick Magee, 58, Irish actor who gave broguish voice to Samuel Beckett's muse (Krapp 's Last Tape and several other Beckett plays were written with him in mind) and a 1966 Tony winner for his Marquis de Sade in the Royal Shakespeare Company's New York City production of Marat/Sade; of a heart attack; in London. Magee supported his stage art by playing film heavies, most recently a Colonel Blimpish Olympic Committee member in 1981's Chariots of Fire...
Signed to play the Queen Mother in the TV movie Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, Olivia de Havilland, 66, added a little plump to her circumstances, a net gain of 10 Ibs. to be exact. The film over, the actress weighed in at the tony Sonoma Mission Inn near San Francisco for three weeks. There, in return for $4,725, she got 800 calories a day and a dawn-to-dusk dose of warmups, aerobics, slimnastics and martial-arts classes, plus visits to the Jacuzzi and herbal wraps (using herb-soaked Irish linen sheets). Olivia's gross loss...