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...democracy with a king as head of state draws on a source of legitimacy beyond parliamentary politics and popular will. The extra institutional support comes in handy in moments of crisis. With complicated and turbulent histories, during World War II Norway's King Haakon and the Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina gave their occupied countries an additional symbol of resistance. In Spain the modern monarchy's services to the constitution have been more than symbolic. In 1981, when gun-toting, right-wing officers seized parliament and held it hostage, King Juan Carlos went on Spanish television in full uniform and used...
...member of her hair- and-makeup brigade is asked if she is as much of a prima donna as people say. "She's worse," he replies. "You've seen the movie All About Eve? Enough said. It's Eve Harrington all over again." Says Susan Quillim of the Wilhelmina Models agency in New York: "Linda has been lavished with everything, and now she thinks she's fabulous." Mulder is also getting a "little bit too big for her boots," says Vogue's Coddington...
Hite moved to New York City in 1968 to pursue a doctoral degree in history at Columbia University. Dissatisfied with the program (she says a professor falsely accused her of plagiarism) and hard pressed for money, she turned to a modeling career with the Wilhelmina agency. Life on the modeling circuit was fast and daring ("It was a time when women believed they should have sex freely like men did"). She accepted offers to pose nude for Oui and Playboy magazines because the money was good. Hite blames "society" and skin magazines for exploiting women. She says now that...
...this year, at least three American private collections have gone public, with their own buildings and curatorial staff. One, the Menil Collection in Houston, is a triumph. The others, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington (based on a collection put together by Wilhelmina and Wallace Holladay) and the Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago, are rather less than that...
...would develop acting and modeling as adjuncts to the music. Soon Whitney was doing a Canada Dry commercial and TV's Silver Spoons and Gimme a Break. She had already been cutting classes at her private Catholic girls' school to model for the Click agency. She later switched to Wilhelmina and appeared in Glamour and Vogue. Meanwhile she was sharing club dates with Cissy. Finally, at 18, she was ready for the record business...