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...SPORTS SPECIAL (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Highlights of a polo match on the royal polo field at Windsor Castle with Prince Philip's Windsor team playing the Jersey Lilies...
...delivery has a pulsating energy and clarity of effect. He yearns wistfully in a large, throaty voice for girls "with skin as white as cream." Or, as in 'Colorful," he stands smirking with his hands poised effeminately and spits out in a jazzy, mocking voice, "As the Duchess of Windsor might say, Black is me." The sheer force of Davis's personality hides his and the script's failure to create a complete character...
...Anyone who has threescore years and ten resents it," growled Edward, Duke of Windsor, vetoing cake and candles for his 70th birthday dinner at Maxim's. But somehow he seemed anything but resentful. At an 18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...
...Sure, it is run on Patriots' Day, which is about as American as a day can get. But a Greek started the whole thing. And Britain's King Edward VII dictated the modern distance in 1908, when that year's Olympic started under his balcony at Windsor Castle - which happened to be 26 miles and 385 yards from the finish line. What's more, in Boston, a foreigner almost always wins...
...method of acquiring land by other means than inheritance. Henry IV reminds his son that the crown that "in me was purchas'd, falls upon thee in a more fairer sort" (Shakespeare's way of saying that the king usurped the crown). In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the devil holds Sir John Falstaff in "fee-simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease" is used to express transience: life is a "lease of nature" (Macbeth); "summer's lease hath all too short...