Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both the masters fight them off to triumph in the end. Looks like a bit of status anxiety on the part of the aristocrats in ye olds class struggle--yesh, but leave such thoughts, while they may bring lumpen to the throats of the proletariat, for the porcelain throne and Social Studies tutorials...
...Shah are excellent," wrote U.S. Ambassador Richard Helms in 1974. But Helms also advised that embassy officials take "great care" in talking to dissidents lest the Shah be offended. U.S. intelligence thus remained fragmentary, crippling U.S. efforts to under stand the growing opposition that would eventually topple the Peacock Throne...
That, at least, is the hope and a major part of her appeal. In the course of eleven months she changed from single girl to engaged woman to bride and Princess to wife and mother-to-be of an heir to the throne: a fresh, enchanting face pledged to the long future of happily ever after. She brought youth and beauty and class to a year that needed them all. Most important, she came to stay...
...fast. Back in Macedon, where men are men and some women are too, an athletic teen-ager named Eurydike is practicing her javelin toss and dreaming of asserting a claim to the throne. Eurydike is the granddaughter of Philip II; her grandmother was an Illyrian warrior whom Philip wed to seal a peace treaty. Renault handles the matter discreetly: "The lady would not have been his choice for her own sake; she was comely, but he had trouble remembering which sex he was in bed with...
Katharine Hepburn is one of the few actresses in America who seem born to the blood royal. When she steps on a stage, she rules by divine right. The theater becomes a throne room, the playgoer a loyal subject. Her imperious gaze, manner and gestures command the bent knee and the silent gasp...