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...wrote it during a very bleak period of World War II, and he looked back to his days in Oxford as golden, halcyon." The most expensive TV production ever to come from Britain (about $9.9 million), Brideshead Revisited has a cast that includes John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Mona Washbourne, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and Diana Quick. Not to mention, of course, that wonderful baroque pile called Castle Howard, which may indeed be the very louse the author saw in his mind when he described the fictional Brideshead, first glimpsed on a cloudless day in June, "prone...
...review of Peter Brook's recent version of Georges Bizet's Carmen [Dec. 21] at the Bouffes de Nord in Paris collapses when it argues, "Would anyone think of touching up the Mona Lisa, redesigning St. Peter's, or editing Paradise Lost? These works already exist as painting, edifice and book; they are frozen in time. By its very nature, however, an opera (or play, for that matter) exists by reconstructing it anew from its blueprint. There is no aesthetic rule that says something cannot be left out or rearranged. The only valid criterion is: Does...
Jamila, Boutros and Mona have been at the home since it opened. Now 16, 16 and 17, respectively, they are considered elders, and have assumed the responsibilities of parents to the younger ones. They are sitting on a bed in a "family room"-all beds and dressers. Jamila, though in pigtails and sneakers, looks older than the other two. Her parents were killed in an Israeli shelling of Tyre. Boutros' father was killed when the Phalangists raided his poultry farm. Mona's father was killed after Tel Zaatar was destroyed...
...mean in the future?" They laugh. Mona blushes. Boutros jumps in: "When I was very young, my parents told me about their leaving Palestine. I will teach my children to be strong and to depend on themselves, as I depend on myself. I will teach them to love all those who love the Palestinians...
...folks comm in and the vice squad out. They had bad ole Marvin Zindler high-steppin' through his favorite den of iniquity like a virgin bride navigatin' a field of cow chips. They had Sheriff T.J.-they called him Ed Earl-and Miss Edna-they ailed her Mona-lookin' longingly at each other from th' opposite sides of middle age. Best of all, they had a county fair's worth of good dancin'. Cheerleaders shook their pompoms, Aggies stomped around the locker room, Edna's girls sashayed up and down the big staircase...