Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which cities identify themselves, bridges are the most evocative. Prague has its Charles Bridge, Florence its Ponte Vecchio, San Francisco its Golden Gate. Bridges signify entry in a dramatic way that tunnels and ring roads simply cannot. So, as a way of projecting ideas for London's future, the Royal Academy asked seven European architects to design a new bridge for the Thames. Specifications: it should be inhabitable, which has set the city talking...
...cares if she's not Her Royal Highness anymore, just so long as she's Her Royal Hereness? PRINCESS DIANA was greeted warmly by a mixture of Madison Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue types on her first major international engagement since the royal divorce, an eating, dancing and shopping spree that raised money for breast-cancer research in Washington. Diana, who called the disease "a great dark enemy stalking women," charmed everyone from diva designer Isaac Mizrahi, who said,"Charles really blew it when he dumped her," to solid soldier Colin Powell, who, after scoring the first dance, opined...
...inviting him to a dinner party in London being given by a wealthy American for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Theroux accepts and then, on the day of the occasion, conceives the idea that the Queen can somehow cure his malaise. At the party he hears and reports on royal conversations, including the Queen's comment on the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, whom she had recently met: "He had splendid hair. Fuzzy wuzzy hair!" As she is leaving, the Queen looks at Theroux and says, "You're in a frightful muddle, aren't you?" He says...
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...Bard is back in maximum force. There are two films based on Romeo and Juliet: one using the text but transplanted to a Miami-esque beach town; the other, Love Is All There Is, set in the Bronx and retold by writer-directors Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor. Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Trevor Nunn has a Twelfth Night starring Helena Bonham Carter and Nigel Hawthorne. Richard III, recently modded up by Ian McKellen, gets the Al Pacino treatment in Looking for Richard...