Word: irelands
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...only as pop-up figures in a pop-art pageant, Boorman's knights and ladies look just right-like the children of a lost age or planet. Their acting is as green and lush as the rolling hills of Ireland, where the film was shot. Nigel Terry (Arthur) is no Sean Connery, the parfit gentil knight of Robin and Marian, but he passes persuasively from innocence to kingship to the realization that immortality can be won only through a fatal joust with his son and slayer. Cherie Lunghi too closely resembles a Covent Garden flower child to bring Guenevere...
...showed a bit of whimsy in the timing of his first such nomination: he announced on St. Patrick's Day that William Edward McCann, 50, an insurance executive from Short Hills, N.J., and a Reagan-Bush fund raiser in the 1980 campaign, was his choice as Ambassador to Ireland. Several other appointments are now said to be in the works: Brent Scowcroft, 56, former National Security Adviser under President Ford, as Ambassador to the Soviet Union; John J. Lewis Jr., 54, chairman of Phoenix's Combined Communications Corp., to Britain; Robert Neumann, 65, the vice chairman of Georgetown...
...intelligence chief in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, and George Smiley, the deceptively bland hero of John le Carré thrillers like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; of cancer; in London. In 1979 Oldfield emerged from a brief retirement to head an antiterrorist security force in Northern Ireland following the assassination of Earl Mountbatten by the Provisional I.R.A...
President Reagan issued a statement condemning the violence in Ireland and urging Americans not to support the fighting by sending money. Reagan said he looks forward to the day the Irish will end their fighting, adding that "the United States will continue to urge the parties to come together for a just and peaceful solution...
...have an imagination that takes you from Ireland to the Italian Riviera, but a budget that doesn't stretch past Marblehead, don't despair. With careful research and lots of discount forms, you can summer in Europe at a minimal cost...