Word: ils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader is introduced to Charles Peacock, an accountant whose only distinction is that his brother is Shelmerdine Peacock, the famous Hollywood star. At the annual company dinner, Accountant Peacock tries desperately-and fails-to attract attention with his Negro-dialect reminiscences ("The last time I saw 1'il ole brudder Shel . . ."). Fortified with whisky, sherry, hock, Volnay and brandy, Peacock resorts at last to his only trick-demonstrating the "stage fall" that his brother had taught him. At the end of the party, his audience gone, Peacock falls flat a few more times for the benefit of Queen Victoria...
...girl dressed in their parents' clothes, take a mock-adult trip to Paris. The author's gentle wit consists in creating a mildly inappropriate setting for the appropriate French phrase. The little girl falls into a fountain under a spouting marble fish. Caption, "Il pleut, Monsieur (eel pluh muh-seyuh)," means "It is raining, sir." Irene Haas's line drawings superbly evoke a tourist's Paris. A book for the household that thought it had everything when it bought Winnie Ille...
...cheering opening night crowd gave Events twelve curtain calls, and the critics were dazzled. "Robbins' latest ballet," said Rome's Il Tempo, "is the really great masterpiece of the dance theater in the second half of the 20th century." Masterpiece or not, it is a departure-"not like my other work," said Robbins, 42. "Otherwise I wouldn't want...
...rifles. Responsible Tyrolean leaders disavowed any part in the violence, condemned the terrorists, and few Tyroleans showed any great interest in the German-language pamphlets that invariably appeared in the wake of the bombing urging "support for the fight for liberation." Looking for a ray of hope, the daily Il Popolo sensibly noted: "The terrorists' acts may result in isolating the extremists themselves...
...tradition-breaking efforts that helped determine the shape of opera to come. Last week the first, and one of the best, of Cesti's works, his three-act Orontea, was back in Milan after an absence of 300 years. It still looked fresh enough, enthused Milan's Il Giorno, "to teach today's composers how an opera should be written...