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...rolling, majestic cadences of Rule Britannia sounded in London's packed Conservative Party headquarters, a confident Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 57, strode to the podium to fire the first official salvo in Britain's surprise 1983 election campaign. Flanked by Cabinet ministers, beneath a bright blue banner proclaiming the new Tory slogan BRITAIN STRONG AND FREE, Thatcher lost no time - and squandered no politesse-in proclaiming her determination to "ensure that Britain remains a steadfast ally in an uncertain world." She unveiled a manifesto that would further toughen Tory policies on trade unionism, denationalization of state-run industries...
While Lincoln Hospital represents for many Bronx residents a sad comment on how our nation has allowed the namesake of a great American statesman to languish, underfunded and struggling to meet the health needs of its impoverished and largely minority clientele, Lindsay Anderson in Britannia Hospital has given us a bitingly, blackly humorous look at the other extreme. The good Britannia Hospital could hardly be better equipped, or more doted on by a loving government. The film, which spans just one-day--the 500th anniversary of the hospital--encompasses the dedication of the fabulously expensive Millar Center for Advanced Surgical...
...conjunction with Monty Python's recent inquiry into the meaning of life. Hospital Britannia seems to be part of British comedy's putative attempt to explain the ways of the world. Significantly, while neither movie manages to shed much light on the world situation, both do offer some particularly gory destructions of human vital organs. Yet surely life itself transcends liver-snatching and brain drinks...
...advanced science, Anderson's highly bureaucratized health machine is really no better than the Bronx's Lincoln Hospital, and Anderson offers no suggestions as to how to improve either. All he seems to do is point out that while the modern condition is inherently hopeless, at least in Britannia Hospital you'll die laughing...
Eight thousand miles away, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herself standing on shifting political soil, drew Britannia's rustling sword from its scabbard and let a righteous charge in the name of self-determination that lifted her national prestige to a level from which it has yet to substantially descend...