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With its cast of fairies, including a queen and banished fairy with a half-mortal son. Iolanthe becomes a humorous saltine of the English peerage system, as the fairies encounter a group of snobbish nobles, both liberal and conservative. Iolanthe may be dated, but the G&S production never gets bogged down by its situations, and it reveals the timeless hilarity of such stock characters as fairies and nobles who gradually unravel the stereotypes that bias their views of each other...
Rebecca Downs plays the shepherdess Phyllis, with whom all the peers fall in love. She has a petulant soprano voice that warbles beautifully while she reveals her character's spoiled naivetes. She spins a web that entraps not only the nobles and the half-mortal, Strephen (Jay Kelly), but also her aged guardian, the Lord Chancellor (Dennis Crowley...
...where does the mere mortal fit into all of this? Well, if you like to be part of a team, and you know a good time when you see it, why not enter the Boston Marathon as a group...
Dangerous and tragic though this turn of events was, it provided a historic opportunity to deal with the problem of Lebanon by removing the causes of a national crisis that had long threatened to be mortal. The primary obstacle to peace in Lebanon had been the presence of two foreign armies-the Syrian "peacekeeping" force and the military arms of the P.L.O.-each in its own right stronger than the Lebanese army. This de facto occupation had stripped the central government of its authority and created the conditions for strife among the religious and ethnic communities of Lebanon. The Israeli...
...power or the interrelated diplomatic influence to go further. It was clear that some of my colleagues on the National Security Council were prepared to look beyond Poland, as if it were not in itself an issue of war and peace, and regard it as an opportunity to inflict mortal political, economic and propaganda damage on the U.S.S.R...