Word: camelot
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Merlin is a name to conjure with. He last appeared on Broadway in Camelot as the house magician, turning a common urchin into King Arthur. But playing the palace was nothing compared with his latest assignment. In a new show that bears his name, Merlin has been called on to change a dog into...
...early years of their marriage, they were the new young couple of Camelot-he a restless freshman Senator with a brother in the White House, and she a Washington wife with retiring but winning ways. Last week, nearly five years after Joan Kennedy, 46, first moved out of the McLean, Va., home she shared with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 50, the couple filed for divorce, declaring that there had been an "irretrievable breakdown" of their 24-year marriage. At one point during the brief hearing in Barnstable, Mass, (where they both stillvote), Joan appeared to be near tears, according...
...LOOKER SEES what he brings to it, but my family numbers among a bare handful of observers who, eight years ago, briefly saw in Namibia another type of parallel--a Kennedy-esque Camelot dream that ended in ruin. Between 1975 and 1978, when the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance was trying to splice the various majority and minority rules into a constitution at a national convention, my father served as legal counsel to Clemens Kapuuo, president of the moderate delegation and chief of the Herero tribe which, back in 1951, had been responsible for the original U.N. petition...
DIED. Robert Coote, 73, mannered and mustachioed British actor who originated the Broadway roles of Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady and King Pellinore in Camelot, and who, in life as well as onstage, played to a spitting T the part of the frightfully British good fellow; in his sleep, apparently of a heart attack; in New York City...
Kennedy's withdrawal clears the way for bolder Democrats to seek the party's nomination without incurring the wrath of devoted fans of his brothers' Camelot. On the two broad issues, creative Democratic alternatives--to the knee-jerk liberalism of Kennedy as well as to the simplistic atavism of Reagan--seem particularly...