Word: royals
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...when in 1983 he declared that After the Rehearsal would be his last film. He was 65, a good age for a parson or a burgher to retire, and he had always been a most reliably productive artist: in the winter doing his job directing plays at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, in the summer making films as a kind of holiday in hell. Eight years ago, that routine ended. There was more (luminous) theater work but no Bergman movie...
...Bermuda's leading newspaper, the Royal Gazette, quoted government officials who said they were investigating whether damage to the reef was caused by work done for Perot. Perot said he had in fact ordered some work on his house but knew nothing about the damage to the reef. "If all this is going to become news, I'm gone," he told the Royal Gazette. "I am going to sell my houses and leave." The threat seemed to chasten Bermuda officials, who quickly reported that there was no evidence Perot or anyone in his family had known about or authorized...
...however influential, should expect to escape justice," declared Morgenthau. The D.A. then made good on his threat by delivering a grand jury indictment of billionaire Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, CEO of the National Commercial Bank, the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia, and a financial adviser to the Saudi royal family, on charges of fraud. Other targets of a criminal grand jury led by Morgenthau include intimates of the royal families of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic. Mahfouz, a principal shareholder in B.C.C.I., was charged with involvement in a billion-dollar scheme to defraud investors and deceive...
...year after unearthing nine skeletons in Siberia, scientists identified the remains of Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his wife Alexandra, who were executed 74 years ago by a Bolshevik firing squad. A third skeleton was identified as that of the royal family's doctor, and the other six bodies, thought to be some of the monarchs' children and servants, will be identified by the end of the month...
...beautiful show of Guercino drawings on loan from the Royal Collection in Windsor Castle that opened this month at the Drawing Center in New York City reminds you, moreover, how labile reputation can be. Guercino was one of those 17th century Italian artists who sank under the weight of an earlier age's revival. Critics and collectors at the end of the 19th century were so obsessed with the study and acquisition of Renaissance art that they had little time for the seicento; for them, Italian genius lay in "primitive" gold-ground altarpieces and 15th and 16th century frescoes. Consequently...