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Rowlandson's energy is infectious. It fairly seethes in images like A Gaming Table at Devonshire House, 1791, where two of the wild aristocratic beauties of the day -- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and her sister Lady Bessborough -- preside like maenads over the eddy of faces, dicing table and money, and a lecherous buck offers a woman a purse which, none too subtly, is shaped like a pair of testicles...
...1940s, in individual decisions.) The family is directly descended from Charles II. "Most people in England are," she chuckles, "and I'm no exception." All, of course, from "the wrong side of the blanket." She likes the fact that her line stems from the classy Duchess of Cleveland rather than the King's more ordinary mistress, actress Nell Gwyn...
...direction, on the whole, is good. The actors give focused, energetic performances. Worthy of mention are Suzanne Rose as an agressive talk-show hostess, China Forbes as the distasteful Duchess and Steve Robinson as the neurotic March Hare. Jon Blackstone and Tom Hale were both charming as Tweedledee and Tweedledum...
...hearing, probably next spring. Should the charges stick, he could face punishment ranging from a reprimand to disbarment. As if that were not trouble enough, London-based Sotheby's has sued Mitchelson for failing to pay for an estimated $1 million worth of jewelry, formerly belonging to the Duchess of Windsor, that he bought at an auction in 1987. California courts, meanwhile, have ordered him to pay $40,000 for bringing frivolous appeals...
...Paul Simon. Has it really been just four months since Iowa anointed Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole as the favorites? Before Primary Season 1988 is carted off to the Smithsonian, it seems fitting to step back and ponder some lessons of the campaign that was. After all, as the Duchess instructed Alice in Wonderland, "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find...