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...being addressed, but, like racism, they will take a long time to be satisfactorily resolved. We are pointed in the right direction, and right now our cup is more than half full. Given the determination and goodwill pervading this country, in time it will overflow. Daryl O'Connor Bryanston, South Africa Bolton 's Image Problem Re Your story on the controversy surrounding John Bolton, Bush's choice as ambassador to the U.N. [May 2]: Does the U.S. really want a contender for worst boss to represent it to the rest of the world? A former colleague called him a "kiss...
Venturing abroad again upon graduation, Hajek will work next year at a school in England's Dorset County as the recipient of the Bryanston Fellowship. Hajek will design and teach her own course on the history and literature of the American Frontier...
...resin importer, Conran displayed a passion for his craft at 14, when he excelled in metalwork and pottery at the exclusive Bryanston School, in Dorset. After studying textile design at London's Central School of Design, he free-lanced as a furniture maker before opening a home-furnishings store, called Habitat, in London in 1964. From its rows of white crockery to assemble-it-yourself pine beds and tables, Habitat offered products designed in the modernist tradition of the '30s, a kind of Bauhaus for our house: less is more, natural is better, simple is best...
...Entertainer (Bryanston; Continental). "ARCHIE RICE," it says in 6-ft. letters on a shabby music hall in a third-rate watering place in the north of England. "Archie Rice, the one and only." Thank God for that, the manager is thinking. Here it is, the height of the season, and not 50 people in the house. Archie's up there, center stage, backed by a tableau of nudes, hollering a patriotic song and keeping time with his midsection. Then he does a little tap dance, insults the bandmaster, sticks his cane in the trombone and leers as he wiggles...
...Battle of the Sexes (Bryanston; Continental), the less amusing of the two comedies, nevertheless permits Sellers to perform a minor prodigy of uproarious understatement. The picture transposes The Catbird Seat, a wickedly funny short story by James Thurber, from Manhattan to Edinburgh, and expands it from about eight pages of print to 88 minutes of celluloid. Sellers plays the hero of the piece, a timid soul with a face as blank as a manila folder, who has lived without women, whisky, cigarettes, or even regrets, and has worked for 35 somnolent years as a bookkeeper in the dingy Victorian offices...