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Given a rather earthbound production by England's Nottingham Playhouse company, A Yard of Sun still rises to Fry's characteristic pitch, which might be described as cheeky-cosmic. The simplest of his characters can spin out rococo banter about the universe, God and the meaning of life. The setting is a courtyard in Siena, Italy, in 1946. The occasion is the reunion of four men back from the war-a refugee from a concentration camp, a doctor who was a partisan guerrilla, a would-be politician who joined the fascists, and a black marketeer who made...
...Mitchell, the Attorney General, is still the heavyweight in Nixon's hierarchy, although to many outsiders he seems more like the heavy. Dour, taciturn, formidably efficient, Mitchell comes across to liberals and civil libertarians as a hard-lining prosecutor with all the human graces of the Sheriff of Nottingham...
...that limericks have never been a popular art form with women, who, as a class, do not enjoy a joke about sex unless they are perfectly sure that it is not a joke against sex. They cannot take with tea and sympathy the sexual troubles of the bobby from Nottingham Junction, or fertile Myrtle, or the eunuch from Munich, or the young man of St. John's. Or the fellow named Brett...
When the city of Nottingham financed a new arts center, "the arts became both popular and commercial," Ustinov said. "Increased interest on the part of the city seemed to infuse the arts with a new spirit, a reverence -- and the new facility was so popular that it did not ultimately cost the city more than 100 pounds a year...
There was Bill Bones and Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver; Blind Pew was flailing the darkness with his crooked Cane, and Robin Hood with his merry outlaws was routing the Sheriff of Nottingham's lackeys. As visitors to the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me., soon realized last week, this was no mere art exhibition: it was a trip back through all the hallowed haunts of childhood, from Treasure Island to Sherwood Forest to Stirling Castle. The artist? None other than famed Illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth...