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...film's deepest friendship is between Margaret and the frail Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave). In a lovely scene, Ruth summons her ebbing strength to secure a sprig in Margaret's hair. It is also a laurel from Redgrave, the great actress of her generation, to Thompson, the next generation's Most Likely to Succeed...
Still, Diana is not a new sprig in British royalty but rather a fresh example of something that has allowed the House of Windsor to endure. The laws of primogeniture may prevail, but the strength of the dynasty is in its women, not its men. In the '30s, Edward VIII abdicated after a brief reign to marry Wallis Simpson; his shy brother George VI handled a tough job well during World War II, but the strain of ruling contributed to his death at 56. Prince Charles, 42, is well versed in the public controversies he relishes, but he remains...
...material gathered by the previous biographers, has produced an incredibly well-documented book, with 75 pages of endnotes. In his quest for detail, the author has even gone so far as to inquire of Dr. Peter F. Stevens, curator of Harvard's herbaria, the genus of a sprig of leaves that an admirer enclosed in a letter to Holmes. He also checked Harvard library records to determine exactly what day Holmes checked out a particularly important book on mysticism during his college days...
...before Thursday's protest, there was every indication that the government was ready to crush even the smallest sprig of dissent. On Tuesday Premier Li Peng and President Yang Shangkun reportedly informed Deng that the movement had spread "to high schools, the countryside and even among the workers." Deng, whose sole official government title is Chairman of the Central Military Commission but whose ironhanded control of the government has led the students to dub him the "Emperor," agreed that the protesters intended to overthrow the Communist Party. Referring to the turmoil that has accompanied political reform elsewhere in the socialist...
...exactly what Hyatt had in mind. Hawaii, the sunshine's circus, attracts more American vacationers in winter than any other destination, and this hotel is fast becoming a main event. For their many millions, Hyatt transformed a stark moonscape of black lava rock with not so much as a sprig of vegetation into a 62-acre tropical garden, ringed by three towers, 1,241 rooms, seven restaurants, 75,000 sq. ft. of convention space, a 17,500-sq.-ft. health spa, 1,640 transplanted coconut-palm trees at $1,000 apiece and water everywhere else. The design is the work...