Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal government says they have the money to pay, but it's difficult for families to take that kind of charge without a big impact on their daily lives," she adds. "And I'm not talking about selling the yacht, but really big sacrifices...
...silver Fu dogs and a silver vesta case for, I suppose, one's silver vesta. I don't care either, but I do think there is something crummy about the blithe auctioning off of things like love letters, diaries and personal photos. The Windsors always seemed a pair of yacht-hopping nitwits to me, and I'm fairly certain that their expressions of passion are not to be compared to Keats', much less to Jesus'. But they were the personal artifacts of individual lives...
PORTSMOUTH, England: Never mind Diana. The Royals are able to show their emotions when it comes to losing the things that are really important to them ? like the 44-year-old Royal Yacht Britannia. In contrast to the studiously stony faces shown at September's funeral, Thursday saw Elizabeth, Philip and the kids practically awash with tears. Princess Anne got out her hankie, the Queen's chin was seen to tremble, and her husband wiped his eyes for perhaps the first time in public at a ceremony to say good-bye to their magnificent floating holiday home...
...Sets on Britannia The Royals shed no public tears for Diana, but the decommissioning of their yacht, Britannia, got Windsor chins quivering...
...early work. In Coffy, Foxy Brown and Sheba, Baby, Grier's characters were at war with crooked cops and white power brokers, and with the black pimps and pushers who worked for them. In Foxy Brown she has a white dealer castrated; in Sheba, Baby she impales a yacht-owning white mobster who has been intimidating black businesses. In Jackie Brown Grier's character is motivated by necessity and money lust; she's a bagman for a crook, and at one point a cop turns down her offer of a bribe. She's no longer a hero, merely a protagonist...