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...involuted politics compressed into the twelve-part series fuddled British audiences, and even Alistair Cooke, who opens each episode with a primer for Yanks, seems a mite confused. Viewers are just as well off ignoring the incomprehensible Popish Plot and other games of succession to concentrate on the sexual politics and the wigs-off look at the life-style of the 17th and 18th century British court. It is perfectly clear, for instance, why Churchill came home from Continental wars so lovelorn that he dove into bed with Sarah without taking time to remove his spurs...
...engagement ring to Scrooge because he has a new passion, for Gain. Briscusse shows the whole courtship to the background of a song called "Happiness Is," or something like that. Pure, thick soup. The level of intelligence is nowhere near an old version of A Christmas Carol, with Alistair Sim, in which the Fezziwig episode was padded much more effectively by having Scrooge ruin Fezziwig and heartlessly take over his business...
Lord Strathnaver, 23, heir to one of Scotland's largest estates, replete with 90-room castle, has completed his training at Hendon, and will now pound a London beat as Constable Alistair Sutherland, the only titled bobby in the realm. "I dislike crime." explained the young Oxford grad. His family motto: "Without Fear...
Independence Day has always been a time of patriotic renewal, but flag fever has been sweeping the country for months. "Twenty years ago, flag waving would have been a harmless thing," says Alistair Cooke, a naturalized citizen who for three decades has reported on Americana to his native Britain. "Now it's something of an omen. Some of the flags are carefully pasted upside down-a reminder that the Republic is indeed flying a distress signal...
...Like Alistair Cooke, other observers of American mores see flag flaunting as a combination of patriotism and reaction to a mood of disquiet. "All sorts of traditional values are being challenged," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. "In a certain sense, by having a flag on the car, you're saying that you're not a hippie, you're against campus demonstrations and that you believe in the traditions and values that are under attack." Mark Doran, U.C.L.A. assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, says that "flag waving is a reaction on the part of the good guys...