Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting at which the Queen discussed the possibility of abdication, and hardly anyone ever mentions that anymore. "It is clear to me that the question of abdication has been ruled out totally," says Lacey. "Charles may be unhappy in his role, but it is the function of the British royal family to express the intangibles of life, including stability. Since modern British monarchs have no executive role, the sovereign has reverted back to the primitive and magical role, symbolic of society's continuing...
...Electronic Ceremonies," Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz examine the media's responsibility for the performance-as-reality, recalling how Charles and Di's royal nuptials were transformed into a product for public consumption by the mass invitations sent out via television, the "class equalizer." Roland Barthes's "I Hear and I Obey..." goes to obscenity's other extreme, reducing audience participation to instinctive impulse. Guido Crepax's comic strip, "The Story of O," illustrates how it is in the insidious positioning of narrator and audience that pornographic outrage finds expression; as Barthes observes from the sidelines, O's sexual organ...
Trevor Nunn has reached the shadowboxing phase, the most perilous in any artist's career. Having staged one of the era's most celebrated productions, Nicholas Nickleby, for his Royal Shakespeare Company, and the acclaimed musical Cats for London's West End and then Broadway, Nunn now must top himself each time out or face critics' speculation that his best work lies behind him. Just that sort of skepticism awaited the opening last week of Nunn's production of Les Miserables, a 3 1/2-hr. musical version of Victor Hugo's novel about revolutionary France. In article after article, London journalists...
...interests were strangely diverse. In addition to being the most prolific of authors--throwing his pages to the floor as fast as they flowed from his pen--he was a painter of considerable skill. Before he came to the theater, by way of walk-on parts at the Royal Theater of Stockholm, he studied medicine. Dabbling in alchemy, he attempted to produce gold by mixing copper and iron sulfate. Languages enchanted him. He applied himself to Chinese and Japanese, and although he remained violently anti-Semitic, he decided in middle age to learn Hebrew...
...Harvard Hall: After the original Harvard Hall burned down in 1764, the University commissioned a new building from architect Sir Francis Bernard, who was also the Royal Governor. Dawes again built the building which was used as a chapel, lecture hall, dining hall, and library. According to the an architectural history of Cambridge, "The college obtained heroic Copley portraits to decorate the dining hall, making it the only American interior of the time where paintings, frames, and architecture were planned to form a single decorative scheme.... All in all the most sophisticated American college building before Bulfinch...