Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtue found an uncongenial home in the Renaissance court, where moral rectitude was hardly a lasting recipe for success. Henry admired him, but these were difficult times; the King's friendships had to take second place to the King's lusts--or more precisely, his obsession with perpetuating the Tudor line through a male heir...
...After five husbands and a few flirtations, Actress Elizabeth Taylor has managed to collect a nice little box of rocks. Among her favorite gems: the 69.42-carat Cartier diamond, the 33.10-carat Krupp diamond and the Peregrina pearl that once belonged to Mary Tudor. Soon she will be slipping her size 7½finger into a new bauble, courtesy of her current fiance, John Warner. The ring, designed by Warner himself, features a red, white and blue motif made from a ruby, diamond and sapphire, and it has been likened to a miniature fireworks display. Chances are, the design...
...died in 1969, that Chicago was no place for a single parent to raise three children. In particular, he says, "I was worried about the schools and the gangs." He moved to his native Memphis to join Stax Record Co.'s promotion department. He bought a five-bedroom, Tudor-style house in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, and hired a housekeeper. When Stax went bankrupt, Shaw started his own consulting agency, which helps a dozen firms to sell to black consumers. He earns about $40,000 a year...
...indicted with Flynt earlier this year on charges of obscenity and engaging in organized crime. The bride, who is the associate publisher of Hustler, will wear an ivory dress and veil, and her bridesmaids will be in red. The couple will live in a $375,000 Tudor mansion in Bexley, Ohio, a staid suburb of Columbus, where the good citizens have not exactly rolled out the welcome wagon...
...most unlikely settings in the world of opera is a Tudor mansion deep in the English countryside. For more than 40 summers the Glyndebourne Festival has set its own particular standards of impeccable musicianship and demanding dramatic style, displayed in its tiny (795-seat) opera house, like a masque in a princeling's private theater. The current season opened this month with a production of Verdi's Falstaff scaled to human size; Glyndebourne proves to be the perfect setting for the limpid musical economies of the composer's final opera...