Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nazi-threatened Berlin of the 1920s, but the libretto that he wrote for Kurt Weill's most ambitious opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930), seems to be set on a wildly imaginary Florida Gold Coast. But to Jonathan Miller, the gifted British director who was commissioned to stage a new Mahagonny at the enterprising, young Los Angeles Music Center Opera, there could be only one locale. "Hollywood," he said before last week's opening night, "seemed to be a living metaphor...
...what you will about imperialism, it does have a way of keeping the natives from killing one another. This truth is entirely color-blind. What was true for, say, British India and East Africa is true for Europe. For 40 years the brutal Soviet dominion over Eastern Europe suppressed a myriad of nationalisms and kept things quiet. Now that Soviet power is in retreat, things are quiet no more...
...decrees, will be "top-heavy with editors." Much of their role / will be to imitate editors elsewhere, notably those of the British tabloids (one of Ingersoll's heroes is Rupert Murdoch) and the breezy, chipper Toronto Sun, whose owners flirted with investing in the St. Louis project. Ingersoll is borrowing blatantly from USA Today, to the extent of labeling the new paper's sections Money, Life and Sports. Pages of USA Today are taped on a wall next to a sign reading YOUR GUIDE TO EXCELLENCE. Despite the Sun's derivative quality, Ingersoll describes the paper...
...Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt -- were also unmasked. But there has long been suspicion that there was a fifth man and much speculation about his identity. Last week the KGB offered confirmation of sorts. After a Moscow screening of a propaganda film on the Soviet intelligence service, British correspondent Rupert Cornwell buttonholed Yuri Modin, who had been the KGB's controller for the Philby network, and asked the fifth-man question. "Yes, there was," replied Modin, then declined to provide any clue to the man's identity...
Cornwell is the half-brother of spy novelist John Le Carre (real name: David Cornwell), and perhaps has a special interest in the genre. Though Cornwell's story was front-paged in his London paper, the Independent, British intelligence experts feigned boredom and suggested that Soviet spooks were simply trying to stir up a bit of mischief...