Word: folderol
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When 90 million readers turned from turkey to the comics in some 2,000 U.S. newspapers last week, they got more than the usual fantasy and folderol. Their favorite characters, the creations of 175 syndicated cartoonists, delivered the same unfunny but earnest message: on this bountiful Thanksgiving in America, much of the world still goes hungry...
...idea at the time. Two summers ago, Elizabeth II decided to invite Bush 43 for a formal state visit, the first for an American President since Woodrow Wilson called on her grandfather in 1918. Prime Minister Tony Blair's government was behind the idea, confident that lots of royal folderol--a white-tie dinner, a ride by the Queen and the President in a horse-drawn carriage--would put a big, emotional exclamation point on the transatlantic bonds Blair has nourished. But now, a week before Air Force One is scheduled to touch down, Bush's journey is starting...
...haired man with a boyish lack of pretension, graduated from Cambridge and had a pair of shows on the West End (London Assurance and The Cherry Orchard) by the time he was 23. He later spent five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, developing a craft free of theatrical folderol. "You learned how to do Shakespeare with two tables and four chairs," he says. "Theater is not about illustrating, not about decorating. It's about building images from the inside out. That's frightening for actors. They can't blend into the scenery...
...stuff and wrote lovely, whimsical books about the rest: horse racing, trout fishing, quirky people who turn comical, not sodden, after a glass or two. Traveling Light is the title of one of his airy collections, and Barich seems as if he is about to continue with such beguiling folderol as he commences Big Dreams (Pantheon; 546 pages; $24), which records a long meander around California. Wistfully, lightly, the author recollects arriving in San Francisco as a 25-year-old in 1969. "In the Haight-Ashbury, I rented a cheap flat and furnished it a la mode with a massive...
...BOTTOM LINE: Folderol in the suburbs makes for a wildly implausible but highly moral tale...