Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scattered throughout the agreed-upon text are pairs of alternately worded passages in brackets. These are the provisions and definitions still in dispute. In the English version, the U.S.-proposed wording comes first and is numbered 1, followed by the Soviet proposal, numbered 2; the Russian version has it the other way around. The brackets sometimes embrace a single word or number, sometimes a lengthy paragraph, sometimes a semantic fine point, sometimes a major issue on which ratification itself could depend. Slowly and cautiously, following detailed orders from their respective capitals, the negotiators are chipping away at the brackets that...
...statement is drafted in Geneva but based on extensive guidance from the White House. "Basic instructions," those containing a new proposal, for example, are approved by the President himself; "amplifying instructions" are cleared by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The Soviet statement is translated into English by the U.S. delegation's team of five resident interpreters and flashed back to Washington over the State Department's own coded communications network...
...Yeomen of the Guard has the other), in contrast to the usual potpourri of tunes, often stitched together by another hand. Sullivan's orchestration is delectable, especially all the elfin woodwind writing appropriate for a fairy world. And nobody has ever demonstrated more variety and skill in setting the English language to music, whether for solo or ensemble singers. The first-act finale of Iolanthe is one of the largest, richest and most ambitious he ever penned...
...THINGS left to us from the generally stagnant era of English history called the Restoration is Restoration comedy. Playwrights such as Congreve, Vanbrugh and William Wyncherly fashioned a brand of theatrical social satire using the raw materials afforded by courtly foppery and greed and the devil-take-all decadence of the urban upper classes. Relying heavily on wit, bawdry, and ludicrously fashioned images, these plays were often quite vicious in their criticism of London society despite the fact that many of the playwrights were a part of the madhouse themselves...
...were it not for Diane Venora's wonderful portrayal of Mafgery, the country wife. She literally saves the second and third acts as she camps and mugs her way out of her husband's jealous clutches and into Horner's lecherous arms. Venora puts on a very funny rural English accent and manages to be consistent about it, and her stage presence is excellent. She steals just about every scene she's in, especially when she dresses up as a man to see the town and ends up with a dozen oranges stuffed down her shirt...