Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This play begins in a death chamber. Gray, broody castle walls define the prison cell. In the dim light, we make out the anguished figure of a woman in a sackcloth shift. It is Mary Stuart, pretender to the English throne, and the velvet-covered block on which she sits will soon receive her severed head...
...mind the adage: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king. Little wonder that the Soviet Union should be so eager to get its own project off the ground. For the rest of us, the prospect of two purblind princelings contending high above for the throne of the kingdom is terrifying...
...advantage for the Soviet Union and embarrass the U.S. as much as possible. From the beginning, U.S. protests were to no avail, as Soviet broadcasts into Iran encouraged the captors to keep the Americans prisoner. Pravda said that the U.S. had invited retaliation by restoring the Shah to the throne in 1953 and then, when he was overthrown, refusing to return him to Iran. When the U.S. rescue raid failed last April, the Soviet press burst out in triumphant indignation: "An abortive provocation," "a violation of international...
South House football was not the only team to be pushed from its throne. Not one of last fall's champions managed to successfully defend its title...
...Philip's wedding feast. Philip had left the wild and crazy Olympias, Alexander's mother, to marry a Macedonian girl younger than Alexander himself (then 18). At the feast, Attalus, a warrior, expressed the hope that their union would bring a legitimate heir to the Macedonian throne, thus implying that Alexander was a bastard. Alexander responded by pitching a goblet at Attalus' head. That set off a brawl during which Philip (probably soused) drew his sword, tripped and tumbled. "Look, men," said Alexander, not one for losing battles. "He's getting ready to cross from Europe...