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Rigg spun eloquent puns throughout her lecture; describing the moratorium on acting when the dead Queen Elizabeth was to be waked for a month, Rigg said, "This is one instance where no stone, no turn...
...against clan, all the way from Machiavellian patriarchs to the wives and daughters, whose chief duty is still procreation and the maintenance of the tribe's hearth. When chaos and violence rob a family of vigorous male representation, its senior women then pursue the clan's goals, much as queen regents or princesses of the blood would do in monarchies. As extensions of their high-born families, the women are allowed to domesticate crises and restore order to the national "home...
...three women, Chamorro is the epitome of the contemporary queen regent: benign, motherly and devout. As President, she is still more likely to open her mouth in prayer than in political double-talk. Showing up for a fiesta at the town of Juigalpa, Chamorro was asked by the local parish priest to say a few words. She replied, "What better words than the Lord's Prayer" and proceeded to lead the crowd in the Paternoster. With just a high school education, she leans for major decisions on what she calls her "sixth sense...
...Queen Latifah...
...never going back. In the words of Queen Nation, "Get used...