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Mawkish Ceremony. Some critics found the whole thing too mawkish for words. But most Britons thought it was just fine. "The greatest thing about the wedding," said Richard Vokey, a London merchant banker, "was that it got people's minds off the bad news. And it was also a sunny day. Everything helps." In a prewedding interview, Mark was asked about the huge play the nuptials were getting in the press. "It reflects a little bit the state of the world at the moment," he answered. "Every day people pick up the paper and read about some disaster...
...survive in the face of such great odds, they clearly needed more than just luck. Robertson had learned about the sea in his younger days in the merchant marine. His wife had essential medical training. They were also an extremely close-knit group with a will to live. Occasional fierce bickering did break out. In this bestselling book, Robertson's understated narrative compellingly records it all with suitable Scots reserve...
...Merrill and executed by Set Designer Peter Wexler, has its curious faults. For example, Merrill has unaccountably confined Dido and Aeneas to a bedchamber when they should be strolling under the stars while singing Berlioz's interpolation of "In such a night as this" from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. In most other respects, the production is a visual extravaganza that at long last brings the Met fully into the 20th century. Rear slides and film vivify all the big moments, from the fall of Troy to the lovers' amorous romp in the woods. Loudspeakers bellow forth...
Woodley--whose last book was a portrait of a cocaine merchant--was too small to play football in high school. Fascinated with the world from which he was excluded, he played in the band, doing his best to remain marginally connected with the Saturday spectacles. A decade later, he slipped gracefully into the social lives of Laketown's athletes, drinking their beer and admiring their cheerleaders...
...Tamraz, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate who heads Kidder, Peabody's Mideast office. He plucked the contract from a consortium of 16 European firms that had signed a preliminary agreement to build the pipeline in 1971. Says Tamraz: "It was straight out of the golden age of merchant banking, before accountants and clerks took over so much...