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...Ulster was the first trial by fire for the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, Britain 's economic crisis has now clearly become the second. A perennial cold-weather cycle of labor un rest, coupled with a diminished flow of oil from the Middle East, threatens Brit ons with their most difficult winter in years. It also threatens to destroy Heath 's anti-inflationary plans for ushering Brit ain into a new era of smooth expansion...
William Ritman has ingeniously solved the problem of whisking us from Lady Brit's lovely house, with its profusion of potted plants, to the makeshift Army shelter and, later, to Undershaft's foundry, with its gigantic experimental cannon. And Jane Greenwood has provided appropriate Edwardian costumes...
Director Edwin Sherin has elicited a remarkable set of performances from his fourteen main characters, with only two exceptions. Lee Richardson's Undershaft is best of all-forceful and unshakeable from start to finish. (And he really plays the prescribed tune from Doninetti's Lucia on a trombone). Lady Brit is his separated wife, a woman given to bossing and tossing off epigrams--clearly modeled on Lady Bracknell in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, written a decade earlier. Jan Miner, in a performance that brings to mind Jessica Tandy, is doing in this role far and away...
...this week, when Brit ain's Parliament passes en abling legislation and Faulkner officially resigns, the Northern Ireland government will be run by a Cabinet member from London...
...else, Anderson argues, can there be an effective check on the probity of government? Brit Hume, 28, another of his staff members, charges that most political reporters ask the wrong questions. "Who's paying?" he demands to know. "Who's behind the candidate? Who's really winning?" This is another strong tenet in the Anderson credo -one that unites him both philosophically and tactically with Ralph Nader, with whom he shares material and mutual admiration. They are both obsessed by the influence of private power and big money on public men and public policy. Almost by reflex...