Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...follow her everywhere. "You make my life hell," she yelled at a photographer who ambushed her outside a London movie theater. She spent more and more nights alone at Kensington Palace, watching TV. There were reports that she was once again suffering from bulimia. Last month she left a royal charity gala in tears: "a migraine" was the official explanation...
Most of the blame for this production ultimately lies with director Bill Tomlinson. Why he attempted to do a rendition of a Dracula this hackneyed will remain a mystery, especially when a campy approach still lay open to him. Even had the Royal Shakespeare Company made a serious attempt to perform this script, the result could be nothing less than hysterical...
...case. His gaze is clear, steady and morally complicated. He has been drawn all his life to military culture and the subject of war. Complications from a teenage case of tuberculosis left him lame, unfit for military duty. But he went on to teach military history at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy, for many years -- a soldier's life by association, at an intellectual remove...
...taste for ostentation. On the ceiling of his gilded reception room in the Louvre is a fresco of the goateed sovereign himself, sitting on his throne and surrounded by puffy clouds and horn-blowing cherubs. . Flying toward him are two figures brandishing architectural plans and a model of the royal palace. The painting commemorates the Emperor's 1852 decision to expand the edifice by adding a new north wing, named after Cardinal Richelieu, to house his private apartments and expanding bureaucracy...
...existence was correct, even if his conclusions were off the mark: "He's right that there is a coherent psychological structure beneath the level of the conscious. That's a marvelous insight for which he deserves credit. And he deserves credit too for sensing that dreams are the 'royal road' to the unconscious...