Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they are indeed the legitimate heirs of Lenin. "To justify one-party rule," says Kremlinologist Victor Zorza, "you must have an international sanction." The Soviet leaders also need the international endorsement to reassert their primacy within Eastern Europe. For all these reasons, Leo Labedz, editor of Survey, a London quarterly on Communist affairs, calls the conference an attempt to find "an ideological fig leaf" to cover Russia's own self-interest. None of this, of course, would be so brazenly expressed in St. George's Hall in the days ahead...
From Merle Oberon to Vanessa Redgrave, a host of splendid British actresses have portrayed Anne Boleyn. Now a French Canadian, Genevieve Bujold, 26, who starred in the critically acclaimed movie Isabel, is getting a crack at the coveted part. In London for the filming of the latest version of Anne of the Thousand Days, Genevieve won generous praise from her leading man, Richard Burton. "She seems to me like a very pert tart-in the proper sense," he said. "I have no doubt she will steal all the notices." King Richard also indicated that playing Henry VIII might...
...expanded his repertory to display a full-sized cast of himself at Manhattan's Stable Gallery dressed -as a dead hippie and laid out full length inside a pink ziggurat-shaped tomb. The cadaver was a huge success; it toured to London and the Kassel Documenta. For his show at the Stable this spring, he chose a far subtler and less sensational idea: a latex cast showing himself as an underwater swimmer with shoals of delicate small fish clinging to his sides. It was suspended from a tree in the backyard, seeming somehow both pathetic and portentous, like...
...traumas of World War II. By what may or may not be coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'. Though all are firmly established in their native Vienna, none had made much of a splash elsewhere until London's Marlborough Gallery mounted a show for Erich Brauer this spring...
...Henry James, at the age of 51, had the traumatic experience of his life. His only produced play, Guy Domville, opened to jeers from a London first-night audience. Despite appreciative reviews by Shaw and H. G. Wells, among others, James' overliterary drama closed after hardly more than "15 vulgar nights of the odious stage...