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Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick looks and speaks like an aristocrat. She wears designer clothes and expensive pearls and comes from New Jersey's fashionably rich Fifth District, where kids learn fox-hunting instead of touch football. Yet, she doesn't belong to the Nancy Reagan-Betsy Bloomingdale school of patrician politics. She has neither time nor patience for the charity-ball circuit where rich Washingtonians raise money for good causes by paying $1000 to be seen in their Halstons. And when she speaks in that throaty, well-bred voice, she talks passionately about the poor--and her concern for them...
During World War II, Captain Sadat collaborated with the Germans in several anti-British plots, which landed him in jail in 1942. Arrested again two years later in connection with the assassination of a pro-British Egyptian aristocrat, Sadat remained in prison until his trial and acquittal in 1948. Shortly after his release, he divorced his first wife and married Jehan Raouf, a beautiful Anglo-Egyptian girl who eventually gave him four children (he had three by his first marriage...
...bare stage surrounded by low-tech scaffolding that rises to the rafters and rings the balcony, the R.S.C. tells this 800-page story of a young innocent in the first years of Victoria's reign. The company's 39 actors essay upwards of 250 roles, from weak-willed aristocrat to poor heroic cripple. The play dives into Dickensian bathos, preposterous coincidences, abrupt reversals of fortune, the collision of improbable goodness with impossible evil?and emerges triumphant, soaring with spirit. In the process it displays the grandest theatrical techniques, affirms the Tightness of love and friendship, revives pleasures and poignancies that...
...scenes are intercut: one pair of actors converses, then falls silent as another, perhaps standing between them, provides exposition on the same subject. The actors coalesce to form an encroaching wall of bodies, the blinking façade of a rich man's house, a Hydrahead of starving Londoners, an aristocrat's carriage (complete with rearing horse). Nicholas and Kate take Smike to the garden of their childhood home?and Kate, in an idyllic gesture that mixes memory and reverie, whirls twice around and into the arms of her two men, her two playmates, her forever family...
Also fired were Sir Ian Gilmour, a haughty and intellectual aristocrat who was Deputy Foreign Secretary, and Education Secretary Mark Carlisle. Both men had expressed doubts about Thatcher's economic policies. Afterward Gilmour confessed that he had written his resignation a month ago in the full expectation that he would be fired. "Every Prime Minister has to reshuffle from time to time," he said in his resignation broadside. "It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks." Humphrey Atkins, a Thatcher...