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...side prehistoric rugby), denting shins at Chipping Campden and passing out in a pub toilet having tried to go whisky-for-whisky with the Burryman - who is sewn, head and body, into a suit of prickly burdock burrs so that all the ambient evils of South Queensferry near Edinburgh will stick to him. Maybe the key to the mysteries of True Brits is to be found in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales. We know who came up with the bright idea of swimming submerged two lengths of a 60-m trench of freezing ooze: a local...
...critic, says that Filippino emerges from the show as "more interesting than Botticelli - richer in doubts, in uncertainties. He's a more modern figure." To simplify the task of comparison, the exhibition displays the paintings thematically. A gallery of exquisite Madonnas includes Botticelli's Madonna Adoring Her Child, from Edinburgh's National Gallery of Scotland, rediscovered only in 1998 and on show for the first time in Italy. Filippino's Madonna with Child and Angels, owned by a Florentine bank, is widely reproduced but rarely seen. A Canadian musicologist recently transcribed and recorded the a cappella music the angels...
...There's a great German art scene too. German is cool." Remember, they're not art rock. With the album in the bag, Franz Ferdinand is ready to do what they enjoy most: perform live, and they don't care where. Set to play to 100,000 people at Edinburgh's New Year's Eve bash, the event was sabotaged by bad weather. But the band still made it to a local friend's flat to play to a party of 50 people. Gigs like that are going to be increasingly rare; this band won't stay underground for long...
...George and Tony Show Re J.F.O. McAllister's article anticipating problems that might arise during President Bush's state visit to Britain [Nov. 17]: While Bush visited London, I marched through Edinburgh with thousands of fellow protesters. This nonviolent demonstration was antiwar, not anti-American. After the slaughter of thousands of innocent people on 9/11, I was deeply saddened that our leaders decided to slaughter thousands more in battle. As the body count rises, I urge everyone to draw inspiration from the nonviolent challenges of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a truly great American. Gordon J. Millar Edinburgh...
...what is the value of such liberties if protest is to be so cynically robbed of influence by the governments at which it is directed? For democracy to flourish, it is essential that the right to protest peacefully is not downgraded to the right to protest ineffectually. Nick Godwin Edinburgh...