Word: northumberlander
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...leader without ever having won elective office. Because a Prime Minister must be a Member of Parliament, a Tory M.P. from rural Nova Scotia obligingly quit his seat, precipitating a by-election. Immediately announcing his candidacy, Mulroney moved his family from Montreal into a three-bedroom log cabin in Northumberland Strait, Nova Scotia, and forswore his Gucci shoes and expensive suits for moccasins and old sweaters. He stuck close to matters of local concern, such as improving harbors and providing financial aid for fishermen, and cannily refused to be drawn into defining his stance on national issues. That...
...first time, Queen Elizabeth referred in public to the Falklands fighting as she opened the Kielder Dam in Northumberland. Her voice filled with emotion as she said, "Our thoughts today are with those who are in the South Atlantic and our prayers are for their success and a safe return to their homes and loved ones. But ordinary life must go on." In Gloucestershire, Prince Charles was asked about Prince Andrew, second in line to the throne and a Sea King pilot aboard the Invincible. Prince Charles replied: "He's all right?just flying very busily. I don't think...
...Northumberland: No more, but that you read/ These accusations and these grievous crimes/ Committed by your person .../ Against the state of profit of this land...
...done. Shakespeare took the names of the king and lords from four actual participants in the contemporary French civil war. And he made reference to an intellectual coterie that included Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, the 9th Earl of Northumberland, Matthew Roydon, and George Chapman--of whom you're lucky to have heard of more than...
Stefan Gierasch brings warmth to the Duke of York, but swallows some of his words. Richard Mathews' Mowbray sputters and lacks resonance, and Rex Robbins' Northumberland is colorless throughout. Thomas Ruisinger makes an admirably intense Bishop of Carlisle, but he ought to know that the meter requires that "Hereford" be disyllabic, not trisyllabic. Of the women--who are peripheral in this play--Zoe Kamitses' Duchess of Gloucester remains in the memory for her one powerful scene in the first act. John Duffy's fanfares and Jennifer Tipton's lighting serve the play capably...