Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easier intimacy than on TV, where she can raid the piano bench of every pop composer from Jule Styne to John Prine and make it sound completely her, where her tiny frame and infectious smile fill a huge stage. And where she looks fit and pretty. Strutting in her royal blue lounge outfit, she tells the crowd, "I bet you didn't expect me to look quite . . . this . . . fabulous." Somehow, we did. A unique talent in a chic package: that's the story of, that's the glory of Bette...
...thank for doing overdue justice to an icon of American popular culture. This first-ever TV version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess comes not from an American network but from the BBC. The director is a seasoned hand at such transatlantic transactions: Trevor Nunn, former head of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the man who brought Cats and Les Miserables to Broadway...
Though the policemen still wear shoulder patches embroidered PALESTINE LIBERATION ARMY, their days of furtive desert bivouacs are over. The grounds of Amman's Royal Police Academy, where the men are training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow...
...musicals such as Broadway's Miss Saigon and the Broadway-bound London revival of Carousel. The brevity of the eight-week U.S. run, combined with its vast scale -- 23 actors onstage and a staff of 22 -- pretty much ensures it will be at best a break- even for the Royal National. Explains artistic director Richard Eyre: "We are doing it to raise our profile." Although Britons generally rate his troupe above the Royal Shakespeare Company, Americans know the R.S.C. better ) because of the likes of Nicholas Nickleby. As a result, U.S. tourists account for only 6% of the Royal National...
...Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. Now they are unhappy about what they don'thave: a thriving economy, job security, falling crime rates, ethnic harmony. No wonder a Gallup poll in July found that 54% feel their country is a snobbish, class-ridden society, 75% are convinced that the royal family lead indolent, jet-set lives, and only 3% predict that Britain will remain a world power in the next decade. Such responses may explain why, when asked if they would like to leavethe country, 47% said they would pack their bags before teatime...