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...your contents page you refer to Graf as "A Female Captain Bligh." Shame on you for perpetuating a myth. Bligh was one of the Royal Navy's most humane captains, certainly no martinet. You should pay more attention to history and less to Hollywood. Mike Witt, PETTS WOOD, ENGLAND...
Still, let's not praise Merkel the martinet too much. She has not acted out of pure selflessness. As the richest nation in Euroland, Germany would have had to pay the largest share of the bailout. And if the euro careens out of control, Germany would end up as the biggest loser. With the euro derailed, the new deutsche mark would be everybody's darling, driving its value up - not a cheery prospect for the world's second biggest exporter. (See video: "Globabl Business Trips: Germany...
...This choleric temperament would define Cleese's post-Flying Circus personality: as Basil Fawlty in his Fawlty Towers sitcom; as the martinet sergeant in the film of Peter Nichols' Privates on Parade; and, right now, in Spamalot, as the Voice of God. When Arthur cravenly compliments Him on the notion of a quest for the Grail, Cleese the Almighty bellows in that distinct and cutting tenor: "Of course it's a good idea. I'm God, you stupid...
...mention this not because I'm a dress-code martinet (though I must note I was the only audience member in my field of vision who was wearing a tie), but to indicate that here was a show with an instant lock on its market. The producers of this show about the Four Seasons-the '60s vocal quartet from Belleville, N.J., that sold maybe 100 million records (those were vinyl discs that people bought before there were CDs, kids) had quickly located that segment of the tri-state community who had danced and romanced to songs like "Sherry" and "Dawn...
...human spirit. It's more like a prison movie; the guys on the quad rugby Team USA have the grizzled machismo of lifers. Or sports studs. Mark Zupan, right, goateed and tattooed, is as focused as any pro lineman. And Joe Soares, who runs the Canadian team, has the martinet tone of an NFL coach. Soares went north after the U.S. dropped him from the squad. There's bad blood, and it will be spilled...