Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ROYAL PAIN...
...list of founding shareholders reads like a Who's Who of the gulf, including the names of dozens of leading businessmen and members of the region's ruling families, among them Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia, and seven members of the Saudi royal family. The vips generated tremendous interest, and when the new bank sold a large chunk of its stock to the public, prospective buyers in Bahrain queued up at dawn...
...From that point on, the old story should have followed without a hitch: lower-middle-class lad knuckles his forehead in gratitude and takes on the accent, manners and tastes of his social betters. Amis, however, whose education was interrupted by four years of service in the Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, returned to Oxford with no intention of kowtowing to the prevailing dogmas. He and his friend Philip Larkin, another scholarship boy who went on to literary renown, hung out in pubs, listened to American jazz and privately mocked the arty, Bloomsbury pretensions of their dons...
...months after her arrival in Ethiopia, a military revolution ousted Ethiopia's royal dictators. Although most academics were forced to leave the country, Shelemay says she, as a scholar of music, was able to stay because, "They didn't think I was much of a threat...
...CARLOS: If any art form would seem at home with tragedy, it would be opera--yet even Verdi wasn't above the altered ending. In his 1867 opera, Don Carlos, a full-throated tale of royal intrigue, the titular tenor is saved from doom by heavenly intervention. In the 1787 Schiller play on which the opera is based, Don Carlos is handed over to the Spanish inquisition--by his own father...