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Word: britisher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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HENRY V. Kenneth Branagh, 28, is the Olivier wanna-be of the '80s. In this version, keenly faithful to the famous 1944 film, the actor-director stakes his boldest claim yet to Lord Larry's title. The elite cast -- a veritable Burke's Peerage of British acting -- makes it a royal, enjoyable feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 20, 1989 | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

FRANCIS BACON, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Haunting emblems of the Age of Anxiety in the eminent British painter's distorted, isolated figures. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 20, 1989 | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Michael Frayn, Noises Off is really about a second-rate theater company's attempt to stage second-rate playwright Robin House-monger's Nothing On. This HRDC production employs skillful direction and great comic talent to focus on the onstage and backstage sexual politics of a group of British has-been actors...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: And on the Eighth Day, God Took His Valium | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

...Kenneth Branagh is a British arts whirlwind: acting, writing, directing, managing his own rep company. Now he wants to make Shakespeare meaningful to moviegoers. It could work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 20 NOVEMBER 13, 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...soon run out of gas provoked long and acrimonious debates in Congress. In the midst of that controversy word came that the DOE had been making millions of dollars a year by selling surplus tritium overseas. Some of the gas, it was revealed, had vanished while being shipped to British lighting manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tritium Puzzle | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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