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...attention of Britain's highest and mightiest. Last week, at the acme of a 200th-anniversary celebration that has already included two TV shows, a souvenir book and numerous encomiums from rivals, the paper played host for four hours to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Dressed in a plaid suit and mauve hat, Her Majesty visited the freshly painted newsroom, known as "the pit," and chatted with dozens of employees, from reporters in white shirts to pressmen in working clothes. The paper's labor editor caused a brief commotion when he told BBC radio listeners that the Queen...
...Lately the coverage has tilted more toward the latter. Last Christmastime, the President's wife spent three hours at Washington's Children's Hospital doling out toys. The visit provided a particularly emblematic First Lady image: Nancy Reagan in her red-and-black pumps, black knit Adolfo jacket and plaid Adolfo skirt, kneeling on a linoleum ward floor to coddle an infant. Impeccably turned out, uncomplainingly doing her social duty...
Reagan still wears some of the suits he brought with him from Hollywood, including that plaid number with the cross-hatching that drives the TV technicians wild. He clings to the baggy, beige sweat pants that he wears on Air Force One. He and Nancy are making plans for the parties they will give and attend at his Inauguration in January. In the boiler room of the White House, they are betting he will recycle the old movies that he shows in the White House theater...
...House of Commons. A Tory M.P. from Nova Scotia obligingly resigned, and Mulroney ran for the seat in a special by-election. Leaving nothing to chance, the rookie candidate moved his family into a three-bedroom log cabin in the contested district. Swapping his pinstripes for plaid sweaters, Mulroney beat his closest opponent by more than 2 to 1. Perhaps Trudeau, vacationing in Greece at the time, sensed what was to come. Remarked the Liberal leader upon hearing of Mulroney's election: "We will certainly be treating him with respect−and apprehension...
...transfer the soul of this character, this smart dumb guy, into the svelte body of a comic-movie hero. It has not always been a snug fit. In Pennies from Heaven he was gung-ho but overwhelmed by the musical machinery; in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid he got lost in a clever construct of old movie clips. By the time The Man with Two Brains came out, Martin's stand-up audience had deserted him. A pity: they missed a small, funny film that provided, in its Frankenstein plot of a surgeon in love with...