Word: dress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fourteen years ago, Easton put on its first annual waterfowl festival. Today the town of 8,000 or so entertains roughly 35,000 celebrators during the three-day event. (The people who attend tend to dress like the people of Easton. A first-time visitor this year was struck by the thought that if a poor man could manage to obtain a chamois-shirt concession, all his envy of Croesus would cease.) The affair nets as much as $200,000, a sum the town divides among waterfowl-conservation groups. Some of the paintings for sale fetch as much...
...Soviet delegation to Britain in mid-December. Gorbachev's trip will mark the first visit of a top-ranking Soviet leader to Britain in eight years. For Gorbachev, who has already seen more of the West than all but a few Politburo members, the visit might be the dress rehearsal for a later trip...
Lurie's London backdrop betrays Lurie's critical love. This is not a James novel with wealthy Americans darting about wide-eyed in full-dress infatuation. Lurie shows us the procession of the Druids on Parliament Hill but does not spare us their absurdity, the anachronistic spectacles under their ancient hoods, their clearly modern British faces. But neither can Lurie mask her love for Vinnie's adopted city, flaws...
...added delight, Lurie serves her romantic comedy with a mix of entertaining minor characters. There's Fred's wife and her photo exhibition of the male organs Vinnie finds so distasteful, a Cockney housekeeper philosopher, and Edwin Frances, the "homosexual who likes to dress up in his hostess's clothes...
...posture of the three figures is slack, the battle dress disheveled. The faces are young and tired. The eyes are wary. There is nothing heroic about the bronze men, but together they suggest the wordless fellowship that is forged only in combat. And there can be no mistaking where they fought: Viet...