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...that voice, "the Voice of Cape Ann," is flat and without timbre. His admirers describe it as a deadly monotone or compare it with Elmer Fudd talking with a mouthful of marbles. His patter is often punctuated by dead air and occasionally interrupted by some terse remark like "The peas are burning...
Tartaglia (Richard Grusin), the prime minister, is one of those delicious villains. Sweeping down on his victims, spreading out his insect-like cape, Tartaglia plots his revenge on Deramo and his possession of Angela...
When the South African Parliament reconvened in Cape Town last week after a two-month recess, the government of State President P.W. Botha was expected to offer a bill to set up a national council of blacks and whites that would advise him on social and political matters. Though the council's recommendations would not be legally binding, its creation was supposed to be a conciliatory gesture to the country's 24 million voteless blacks. As it turned out, the government was not ready to offer such a bill, and there was speculation that Botha had decided...
...Western leaders still hoped to persuade Botha to release Black Leader Nelson Mandela, who has been in prison for 24 years. Now some Afrikaners are agitating for the arrest of Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel peace laureate who is due to be installed on Sept. 7 as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in southern Africa. Two weeks ago Manpower Minister Pieter du Plessis gave Tutu a "friendly warning" that his calls for sanctions against South Africa "border on high treason." Last week Andries Treurnicht, head of the far-right Conservative Party, joined the chorus...
...Vineyard Haven, drive in the direction of Gay Head--up Island--until you get to Chilmark. Don't stop to look for a town, because there isn't one to look for. Just off the main road you'll find the Chilmark Community Center, a graying Cape Cod shingle building with four ill-kept clay tennis courts out back. In the far court on the left, whipping the ball over the net at breakneck speed, will be a tall young man sporting a vintage 1986 Kirkland House tee shirt with the memorable emblem "Kirkland House: Where Intelligence is Just Another...