Word: royale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This feeling of confinement becomes a crucial stylistic element. The cast, in tact from the original Royal Court pro duction, is exemplary. Besides the plea sures of discovering unfamiliar talent - the cast works largely in British theater and television - it is fine to watch Alan Bates' shrewd, divisive Andrew...
Died. Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, 82, commander of the Royal Air Force fighter group that fought off the German blitz on London in the summer of 1940; in Auckland, New Zealand. After the Battle of Britain, Park successfully defended Malta, then moved on to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where he commanded the Allied air forces...
...Fischer plays in 1975, chess lovers will surely be thankful; if he does not, the game will nevertheless survive -for reasons well expressed in a passage Cockburn quotes from Stefan Zweig's last story, The Royal Game: "Is it not an offensively narrow construction to call chess a game? Is it not a science too, a technique, an art, that sways among these categories as Mahomet's coffin does between heaven and earth, at once a union of all contradictory concepts: primeval, yet ever new; mechanical in operation, yet effective only through the imagination; bounded in geometric space...
...three-hour anniversary ceremony at Kampala's Nakivubo football stadium held late last month was as bizarre and ludicrous as its sponsor. Along with the traditional drums and dancers, the center of attention was Amin's "Black Watch," a motley assortment of Ugandan soldiers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts, tunics, diced glengarries and plastic sporrans decorated with pied crow feathers. A dozen Africans puffed Scotland the Brave on bagpipes-a measure of Amin's admiration for the Scots, which dates back to his days in the British army...
Died. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 66; in his sleep; on his estate in Sussex, England. As Earl Marshal of England, the duke choreographed royal weddings and funerals with such clockwork precision that he complained that Winston Churchill's state funeral was "two minutes late." Asked once by a newsman how he felt about work, the duke replied, "It has never appealed...