Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyway, as I was saying... We leave this place, bags in tow, Heidegger in our hip-pockets, and who sweeps in to fill our vacuum but all these old people? This year, they did so to an old-style British "Panto," a comical take on the fairy tale "Cinderella"; a traditional "St. George and the Dragon" mummers play; lots of familiar carols and rounds, including the ceremonial "Boar's Head Carol" from Oxford; Susan Cooper's classic solstice poem "The Shortest Day" and a spectacular rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" you'll never forget. And, as always, Revels...
Then they jam-packed the stage with British folk singer/tradition bearer David Jones, actors Patrick English, Sarah deLima and Richard Snee, the 40-member Revels Chorus, a merry company of Music Hall "artistes," the Pudding Lane Waits, the Dingley Dell Dancers, a parlor orchestra, the Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble, The Pinewoods Morris Meri and the Rose Galliard Northwest Morris, the Pearly King and Queen, and a fake ferret. Do you know what that means? Again, the press release speaks through me. Basically there are a lot of people on stage, no one is particularly charming or memorable, they do ridiculous...
...Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela have indeed resolved the Lockerbie deadlock, Washington faces a problem -- how to contain Muammar Ghaddafi. The British and South African leaders on Friday expressed confidence that a discreet South African diplomatic mission would coax Ghaddafi into surrendering for trial two Libyan intelligence agents accused of bombing Pan Am flight 103 -- which would end 10 years of sanctions. ?Ghaddafi?s refusal to cooperate gave the U.S. a reason to keep Libya boxed in,? says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. ?Those sanctions proved to be a critical factor in neutralizing one of the world?s most dangerous...
Over the spring and summer, however, the European perspective slowly shifted to a peculiar mixture of sympathy for a people betrayed by their president and disrespect for those same citizens who not only failed to remove an ineffective presidency but gave him ever-increasing approval ratings. For the British I talked with, the solution is clear: the President betrayed his people and must leave office...
There was no hint of foul play, but the appearance of borrowing from a man under investigation was bad enough. Within two days, Mandelson did the honorable thing. He did not go on national television and wag his finger at the British people. He did not craft a cover-up, if indeed he needed one. He did not ask his friends and political allies to lie for him. Instead he appeared red-eyed to tell the nation he had worked for years "to demonstrate that the standards of government and behavior in public life were going to be restored permanently...