Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Empire State Building lit up New York City in Columbia's royal blue two weekends ago in honor of the bicentennial of the Columbia College Charter, but many students said they felt little urge to participate in the events the school planned...
...Black men maneuvered metal grocery carts through the crowd, scavenging for returnable beer cans. French Quarter etiquette encourages you to leave your can in the gutter for these people to find--it's the only neighborhood I know that practices philanthropic littering. Outside the Royal Sonesta Hotel we saw three obliterated I.U. students trying to help a scavenger by bellowing up at the people carousing on the hotel balconies to throw down their empties. An answering rain of hard metal cans showered to the pavement, along with an inflatable sex doll on a string. Those who were sober enough...
...next afternoon I was standing at the urinal in a restaurant bathroom on Royal Street. An enormously fat bearded man in cut off shorts and a muscle t-shirt walked in to the next stall. He leaned one pudgy arm on top of the partition and stared balefully down at me. He spoke. "Eat good food and get fucked up, man. That's what life's about...
Every family has its little secrets, and the British royal family seems to have at least its share. Last week the Sun newspaper of London disclosed that two first cousins of Queen Elizabeth's, who were listed as having died long ago in Burke's Peerage, a leading directory of the British aristocracy, actually spent decades as patients in a Surrey mental hospital; one still survives there. Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, two of the five children of the Queen Mother's brother John, and both severely retarded, were admitted to the Royal Earlswood hospital in 1941. Though Burke...
...condition of the royal cousins hushed up? If so, it may have been the work of a former Countess of Strathmore, a paternal aunt, who periodically updated the family's entry in Burke's. Buckingham Palace remained tight- lipped on the matter. But Elizabeth Norman, head of the hospital's auxiliary, said she wrote to the Queen Mother about her nieces in 1982 and received a reply. In it, said Norman, the Queen Mum expressed surprise at the news that the two were still alive, and sent money to buy them gifts...