Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photographs showed a bikini-clad Princess Stephanie, 19, and Anthony Delon, 19, the bad-boy son of French Actor Alain Delon, frolicking on the beach "in tender insolence." But to Monaco's royal family the only insolence was in the behavior of Paris Match. The Aug. 17 issue featured an eight-page spread detailing the triangular affair of Princess, Delon and her longtime boyfriend Paul Belmondo, 21, son of the actor Jean-Paul. The palace went to court, claiming an invasion of privacy, but a French judge refused to stop publication. Huffed Nadia Lacoste, spokeswoman for the Grimaldis...
...Over the Cuckoo's Nest saw a way to retain the play's intellectual breadth and formal audacity without betraying the movie medium's demand for matter of fact naturalism. And he persuaded Shaffer, who had been disappointed by film adaptations of his plays, including The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Equus, to write the Amadeus screenplay, reshaping Amadeus from a madman's memory play to a more realistic musical biography. Recalls Shaffer: "It was like having the same child twice...
...that it was against international law to attack a ship without warning. The New Statesman also said that the British sent a Polaris submarine armed with nuclear missiles to the South Atlantic and might have used the sub as a threat if Argentina had attacked their forces. Two top Royal Navy officers have denied the charges...
These erotic scenes, replayed in countless variations by such academic painters as France's Jean-Léon Gérôme and England's John Frederick Lewis, kept the crowds coming to the shows organized by the Academic des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Royal Academy in London. By the turn of the 20th century a host of French and English artists, and a few venturesome Americans, had been drawn by the lure of "the Orient": a term that then denoted not the Far East but the Middle East and North Africa...
...There is a picture in every street and at every bazaar stall." Some 70 years later another novelist, E.M. Forster, foresaw a dreary end to the Orientalist movement. In a letter to a friend about a voyage through the Suez Canal, he wrote, "It was like sailing through the Royal Academy-a man standing by a sitting camel, followed by a picture of a camel standing by a seated man: picturesque Arabs in encampment, ditto in a felucca...