Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showdown comes in a tranquil setting?a large, split-level seaside house in Monarch Bay, some ten miles north of San Clemente. The principals sit in beige easy chairs in front of two large bookcases brought into the living room specially as backdrops for the show. (The books are mostly historical reference works, selected to establish an atmosphere in which Nixon would be comfortable.) Frost is seated to favor his best profile. Heavy curtains obscure the rugged coast and the sunny Pacific. Nixon looks a bit older than in his White House days but surprisingly strong and tanned?a daily...
...black and white. But its accounts have a high color. The mission of Franklin, Deane and Lee to secure France's aid during the Revolution, for example, becomes "a spectacle to delight the gods-smooth Ben, sleek Silas and suspicious Arthur selling a revolution to the most absolute monarch in Europe." Morison was correcting the manuscript of this revision just before he died last year at the age of 88. What a way to go. Mayo Mohs
...Meade as Alais, Henry's latest mistress, and Jeffrey Trescott as Philip, the French king. Slender and sweet-voiced, Meade looks and sounds perfect for the part, but her emotional range is limited to a state of placid melancholy. Trescott is simply not commanding enough in his role as monarch: he exudes hints of cunning, but none of the regality or stateliness which set Henry apart. Nevertheless, both Meade and Trescott, starting out stiffly, get progressively better as the play goes...
...entire cast in order to prevent any catastrophes. With this class and the expertise of professionals Bill Rynders designing the set and Marcia Dixcy Carr the costumes, this version should succeed in compressing the agonies of War and Peace into two and a half hours even better than the Monarch notes...
...accession, Japan had been atom-bombed into defeat and had risen again to become one of the world's proud industrial powers. Hirohito, who renounced his divinity in the wake of Japan's World War II loss, is now the world's second-longest-reigning monarch. Swaziland's King Sobhuza II, who became King in 1921, has ruled longer (though only since 1967 as the head of an independent state...