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...identified herself with this political stance enough to injure her credibility as an artist or make her artistic appearances tantamount to political statements? Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra apparently thought to last April, when they threatened to refuse to play in a performance of Stravincky's operaoratoria "Oedipus Rex" if the actress narrated the piece as scheduled. After receiving repeated warnings, both from musicians and board members who criticized her engagement as "provocative" and "insensitive," and from outside lobby groups, the management cancelled the concert, citing safety hazards to participants. Last Friday, Redgrave announced that she will...
Solicitor General Rex Lee said yesterday that his office sought Bator after the position opened up earlier this year because "he is one of the leading legal scholars in the country." Lee added that Bator has demonstrated that he concurs with President Reagan's views that the federal courts have overstepped their bounds in taking on too many state court cases...
...former British Governor, Rex Hunt, who returned to the Falklands under the new administrative title of civil commissioner, last week donned his red tunic with the silver braid and put on his hat with the ostrich-feather plumes to open the first postwar session of the legislative council. He puckishly paraphrased Winston Churchill to thank the British liberators: "Never in the course of human conflict has so much been owed by so few to so many." Says an admiring islander of Hunt: "He knew us before, he knows our problems, he knows the way of life we had before...
Once the British had repossessed the Falklands, they would not feel bound by any understandings reached with the Argentines before the talks broke down. The affairs of the islands would be run not by any international body but by Rex Hunt, who would be returned to his post as governor. The British also intend to keep a garrison, initially of about 3,000 troops, on the Falklands indefinitely and to lengthen the runway at Port Stanley so that it could handle high-speed, longer-range jets such as Phantom multirole fighters and Buccaneer strike aircraft. If the need ever arose...
...imply everything, including their constitution; Americans feel compelled to be explicit. This is why an Englishman can make a lie sound like the truth, while an American will do the opposite; it's all in the vowels. Stylistically the difference between the two countries is the difference between Rex Harrison and Gary Cooper-a difference that is generally played to the hilt by both sides so that they may simultaneously find each other quaint and horrifying, each regarding his counterpart as if he had never seen such a specimen before. Put crudely, one is a nation of shopkeepers...