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...this really a constitutional crisis, as some are suggesting, comparable to the uproar surrounding Edward VIII's abdication in 1936? Or is it merely a sign that the relentless bottom feeders among British newspapers have gobbled out of control...
During the 1936 constitutional crisis over the engagement of King Edward VIII -- later the Duke of Windsor -- and American divorce Wallis Warfield, Winston Churchill growled, "Why shouldn't the King be allowed to marry his cutie?" Playwright Noel Coward shot back, "Because England doesn't wish for a Queen Cutie." Today many Britons want a taste of soap opera in their royalty. Sarah Ferguson, Duchess Cutie, proved very suitable -- if only temporarily -- for that...
Last fall, Institute officials made a bold statement against a U.S. immigration policy that barred people infected with the HIV virus from entering the country, by moving the VIII International AIDS Conference from its planned location in Boston to Amsterdam...
...bash up a printer who fell foul of him, and then had the poor man denounced for sodomy -- a crime that, in 15th century Venice, carried the death penalty. Mantegna could also be sardonic and disrespectful to tardy patrons, up to and including the Pope himself. When Innocent VIII hired him to decorate the chapel of the Villa Belvedere in the Vatican, he was puzzled to see, tacked onto allegorical roundels of the Seven Virtues, an eighth that held the sketched-in figure of an old woman. What did she signify? asked the Pontiff. "Ingratitude," snapped Mantegna...
...VIII. Problems. Unfortunately, many romance novel covers reveal an artist's lack of skill. Eden, by Cordia Byers, shows a couple lying in a barn full of hay. But what exactly is the woman leaning on? It's unclear what is supporting her back, though apparently, from the position of her legs, she is leaning on something; perhaps a bale...