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...King Edward VII was escorted to his grave by 48 Kings and Princes. Only four sovereigns who wore crowns in Europe then still wear them: Italy's gnarled and hardy little Vittorio Emanuele III; The Netherland's marsh-mallowy but masterful Queen Wilhelmina; Norway's tall brooding Haakon VII (George V's brother-in-law); and the rheumy-eyed royal Swedish marvel who can still play tennis. 76-year-old Gustaf V. To get these four to London, however, proved impractical and only European royalty of English blood were expected- the King's fondly beloved...
Well, maybe. Until recently, IMAX was not exactly what you would call Hollywood hip. Founded in 1967, the Ontario-based entertainment company was known for its eight-story-tall screens in museums and its educational films on such subjects as dolphins and space--some in 3-D. Cool? Definitely. Profitable? Not very, especially considering the $8 million cost of an IMAX theater. But over the past 21 months, IMAX has introduced a new technology that allows multiplex operators to retrofit existing theaters for about $1.6 million. The company also developed a way to digitally convert films to its giant-screen...
...those in Close Range, a book that took regular plunges into awe and dread. In a supernatural shaggy-dog story like The Hellhole, about a game warden who discovers a very effective means for dealing with unlicensed hunters, Proulx renews the Western tradition of the short story as the tall tale...
What manner of man is this Howard Hughes--this tall, gangling, aging and sick-looking man of 42 whose life and eccentricities have built a lurid legend? ... The private life of Howard Hughes might be described as a complete and carefully protected disorder. He has no interest in clothes, only the barest minimum of interest in food and sleep. He owns five suits, of which the newest is five years old; he is rumpled and disheveled most of the time, gets dressed up only for special occasions. He postpones haircuts as long as possible. "I used to be well-groomed...
...looked for her at one of the random freshman events, asking all these tall girls if her name was Reka,” Rochelle K. Bell ’05, Cserny’s teammate on the women’s basketball team, writes in an e-mail. “I finally found her. All she said was, ‘Hello, my name is Reka.’ And that’s pretty much the most communication I got out of her all freshman year...