Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...JEWEL IN THE CROWN, PBS, Sundays through March...
...conventions of TV drama. There is no 21-gun pageantry here, no coffee-table scenery. Most of the characters, and there are more than 100, keep their secrets to themselves. When, after 14 episodes, all the subplots converge, none of them ends up resolved. Nonetheless, The Jewel in the Crown, which comes to the U.S. after conquering viewers and reviewers throughout Britain, delivers a sovereign account of the decline and fall of the British Empire. Slowly, painstakingly tracking its protagonists through a labyrinth of troubles, the show builds up a panoramic portrait of British India that is as levelheaded...
...interests turned to the stage, and he designed the sets and costumes for Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, as well as operatic adaptations of his own works. It is the theater that informs Sendak's illustrations for E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker (Crown; $19.95). This is not the customary sugarplum rendition. As the artist points out in his introduction, the Christmastime ballet was based on a version of the tale by Alexandre Dumas, "smoothed out, bland and utterly devoid of the weird, dark qualities that make it something of a masterpiece." With characteristic...
Mark Moseley booted a 37-yd. field goal late in the fourth period to give Washington a 29-27 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals and the National Football Conference East title, while the Pittsburgh Steelers captured the AFC Central crown on the final Sunday of the regular season by defeating the Los Angeles Raiders...
...Crown Press has produced a handsome edition of the new translation. A problem however with illustrating any great work is that the artist occasionally inflicts too much of his perception of the story upon the reader. Sometimes this is appreciated. Yet with a book like the Nutcracker, Illustrations are a dangerous business. Maurice Sendak is one of the finest creators of books for children. Many of the drawings accompanying the Nutcracker are the same drawings that functioned as the set for the recent ballet. Sendak also created more pictures for the book...