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...loosened wage and price controls in Phase III, only two weeks after he had publicly expressed his distaste for controls on food, the President made still another of his celebrated turnabouts. Appearing on nationwide television, he announced that ceilings were being imposed on prices of beef, pork and lamb...
...nobleman, Sir Rudolf Bing, 71, the urbane and arrogant ex-general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, was making his debut in the New York City Opera's new production of Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord. In his new role, Sir Rudolf was an absolute lamb: early to rehearsals, a dear at taking direction and patience itself while his flowing gray wig was being glued on his bald head. But all the divas he has put down must have loved Critic Harold Schonberg's New York Times review: "In future performances Sir Rudolf will doubtless know...
Currently, Hemispheres is the only Persian restaurant in Cambridge. Its menu is composed of a variety of mysterious sounding dishes mostly concocted of lamb, rice, syrian bread, eggplant and a wide variety of Middle Eastern spices--though the food isn't so spicy that it cannot be handled by the average Cambridge palette. A few Cambridge staples such as roast beef sandwiches are also on the menu, but the most popular dish and the house specialty is its lamb shishkebob...
Miles portrays Lady Caroline like a seasick naiad. She is married to that steadfast politician William Lamb (Jon Finch), who is later to become Lord Melbourne, no thanks to her. Caroline conducts a mad love affair with Lord Byron (Richard Chamberlain), submitting eagerly to such ignominious charades as playing Nubian slave to his surly prince. She thereby offers herself as a willing victim to the Romantic Agony, not to mention the subsequent shame, strife and scandal...
Lapses of taste are far more frequent than distortions of history, although Bolt can bend a fact with the best. Lamb's temporary political disgrace, for example, had less to do with his wife's indiscretions than with parliamentary machinations, and Lady Caroline had several other heated liaisons subsequent to the one with Byron. In the Bolt version, such niceties must yield to the demands of melodrama...