Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obsession so embarrassed Britain's Conservatives that Tory Leader Edward Heath booted his maverick front bencher out of the shadow cabinet. Powell later gave up a Tory seat he had held for 24 years, joined the Ulster Unionists and returned to Parliament from South Down, a Northern Ireland district, but his clipped mustache and hypnotic blue eyes remain familiar all over the country...
Duchess of Omnium. Along the way, their lives intertwine with-among a hundred or so others-a headstrong early feminist, Alice Vavasor, and her rascally cousin George; a young radical M.P. from Ireland, Phineas Finn; and a mistreated wife, Lady Laura Kennedy, who flees from her cruel husband, a rich Scottish baron...
...Welles couldn't have graciously ceded the spotlight to deHory, instead of forcing himself, and his own legerdemain, to center stage. He keeps butting--reciting from Kipling, lumbering through fog in Ireland, gluttoning himself with oysters and steaks. Somehow this went over big in Europe, where F for Fake has already played. Some superstars have only to throw a little self-adulation into their work--their childhood memories, their hors-d'oeuvres, their kitchen sinks--and eager-tongued adulators lap it up. Welles and Barbara Walters...
...breakfast with city department heads, he and his wife Eleanor were presented with a gift of round-trip tickets to Ireland, homeland of the mayor's grandparents. At the Civic Center Plaza, Hizzoner watched artists fashion Christmas sculptures out of ice. On to the dedication of a new gymnasium, where Daley deftly sank a basket...
Where Playwright Rudkin eventually falters is in trying to make private grief a metaphor for public sorrow. In a long and wrenching monologue, he tries to link the childless couple's plight to the nightmare horrors of Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, Rudkin is a dramatist who welds theater to life as too few playwrights tend to do. With this production the Manhattan Theater Club reconfirms its status as an oasis of fresh drama under the venturesome leader ship of its artistic director, Lynne Meadow. She has been joined in this instance by Joseph Papp and his New York Shakespeare Festival...