Word: throned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Prince William of Gloucester, 30, bachelor first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, former Foreign Office commercial attache and ninth in line of succession to the British throne; of injuries suffered when the light plane he was piloting crashed during an air race; in Wolverhampton, England...
There is indeed a legend that a woman disguised as a man sat on the throne of St. Peter some time in the 9th century. Surely, however, the legend could not have been as turgid or as invincibly dull as the film that has been fashioned from it. The film makers, making a wild scramble for contemporary relevance, have chosen to frame the story with a singularly absurd yarn about a schizoid evangelist (also portrayed by Miss Ullmann) who believes she is Pope Joan. "Classic case of withdrawal," mutters Psychiatrist Keir Dullea, peering at her through huge spectacles...
...this plot, Davies' libretto fashions an Everyman kind of morality opera, in which cardinals, white abbots, Latin-spouting priests, heretics and jesters parade in and out of stylized throne rooms and courtrooms while Taverner's destiny is worked out. Allegorical characters such as Joking Jesus, a Pope/Antichrist and Jester/Death trail them in symbolic profusion. Director Michael Geliot (on loan from the Welsh National Opera) and Designer Ralph Koltai have built their set around a huge tower of seesaw platforms on which the merits-and fates-of Taverner and his antagonists are literally and figuratively weighed in the balance...
Died. Talal I, 65, former King of Jordan who ascended the throne after the assassination of his father Abdullah in 1951, but was declared insane eleven months later by Jordan's Parliament and was succeeded by his 17-year-old son, the present King Hussein; in Istanbul...
...woman I love" for whom Edward VIII renounced the British throne was not the only one. A forthcoming biography of the late Duke of Windsor, by his friend Frances Donaldson, tells the story of his long friendship with Mrs. Dudley Ward, wife of a Liberal Party whip in the House of Commons. They met in 1917, during an air raid, when Freda Ward took refuge in the cellar of a house where a noisy party was going on. She chatted in the gloom with an unknown guest in his early 20s, and after the all-clear, the hostess pressed...