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...know Prince Juan Carlos. I did have the honored opportunity to be on intimate terms with his late grandmother, Victoria Eugenie, the last Queen of Spain. If he has inherited even a few of Her Majesty's splendid characteristics, then he surely will succeed...
...arch. Bergman even emphasizes the theatricality of the occasion by providing a few glimpses of the performers off stage: Sarastro studying Parsifal, Papageno asleep in his dressing room and almost missing his en trance cue. Curtains rise and descend, flats rumble away to be replaced by others of equally splendid artificiality...
...alone one that costs virtually nothing for undergraduates to attend. While tuition at most public universities, including New York State's, amounts to at least several hundred dollars a year, an undergraduate at the City University of New York pays a mere $110 in fees. CUNY has a splendid history of helping innumerable indigent students become leaders in business. Government and professions. But today, with an enrollment of more than 265,000, CUNY costs $595 million a year. The city, which pays 45% of CUNY's budget, has trimmed its payment this year by $32 million. CUNY will either have...
Elegant and worldly, with the profile of a melancholy hawk, Nadelman was adored by rich women and duly married a millionairess; he acquired a Manhattan house and a splendid estate on the Hudson. In five years (between 1923 and 1928) the Nadelmans spent more than half a million dollars buying American folk art and were the first systematic collectors...
From the fifth inning on, I could not take my eyes off her. She had splendid brown hair that bounced and she wore pastel blue like a picture in a 1940s magazine. It didn't look as though she smiled that much; she just gracefully extended her legs over the concrete ledge past the red rail and not even the foul balls--hot white smears that lunged her way after inside pitches--seemed to faze her. There were half a dozen men around her, and a little boy beside her; I was in the eighth row, in a chairback seat...