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...royalty in this country. That's at the Palace's request." The U.S. networks tried to make up for their lack of access to the royal couple by hiring commentators such as Actors Robert Morley (ABC) and Peter Ustinov (NBC), Interviewer David Frost and Historian Lady Antonia Fraser (CBS). They did not always help. Morley joked cloyingly about his "missing invitation to St. Paul's." When Chancellor asked Ustinov why the British people love the royal family so, Ustinov said it was the same drive that makes them "rip out seats at football matches. I think they...
...into black and white factions by the fracas over rugby. The Australian Foreign Affairs Department even refused to grant the South Africans visas, forcing the team to take a lengthy detour via New York City and Los Angeles. Referring to the New Zealand rugby union, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said: "I suspect they do not understand the damage this could do to New Zealand. It is a very great pity indeed...
...flavor, March of the Falsettos has an exhilarating champagne tang; in substance, it carries the weight of a cork. In an operatic mode, sans dialogue, Finn somewhat erratically unveils the bittersweet saga of Marvin (Michael Rupert), who divorces his wife Trina (Alison Fraser) to be with his male lover Whizzer Brown (Stephen Bogardus). As Marvin's owl-eyed young son Jason (James Kushner) puts it, "My father's a homo/ My mother's not thrilled...
...George MacDonald Fraser Simon & Schuster; 557 pages...
...Author Fraser, 56, an excellent popular historian (The Steel Bonnets) as well as a prolific screenwriter (The Three-and Four-Musketeers), is best known for his seven Flashman novels, the saga of a Falstaffian poltroon who for sheer cad-dishness has no equal in contemporary literature. Like the Flashman mock memoirs, which skewer the Victorian scene with such wealth of detail that many American reviewers at first thought them to be authentic historical documents, Mr. American teems with minutiae ranging from the price of the London & Northwestern train trip from Liverpool to London (just under $6, first class) to details...