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...Queen Elizabeth II, so it is reported, she is known as "our Val," after the Valkyries of German legend; other members of the British royal family are said to refer to her as "Princess Pushy." And in the British press last week the 6-ft.-tall Princess Michael of Kent, wife of the Queen's first cousin, was at the center of controversy because of the discovery by the tabloid Daily Mirror that the princess's late father, Baron Günther von Reibnitz, was both a Nazi and a major in Hitler's notorious SS. The princess, who was born...
Despite this commercial abundance, some of the hottest tickets are for productions at the subsidized National Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company. Both suffered cutbacks when their Arts Council grants were announced this spring, and the National's director, Peter Hall, temporarily closed his experimental Cottesloe stage. Some critics wondered if there might be a connection between the dispute and productions that have endorsed leftist views or attacked the conservatism of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The National's Pravda, for example, seems to say that the worst sin of Fleet Street is generosity toward Thatcher. The R.S.C.'s Today...
There was, take your seats please, actual convention business as well, and the hottest topic of the general sessions was international terrorism. In her keynote address at Royal Albert Hall, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke angrily of a newly "fashionable heresy," that "if you feel sufficiently strongly about some particular issue, be it nuclear weapons, racial discrimination or animal liberation, you are entitled to claim superiority to the law and are therefore absolved." Thatcher argued that terrorists were increasingly active, in part, because news attention encouraged them. The P.M. told the lawyers, to repeated applause, that reporters should voluntarily refrain...
...other writer alive, and he never takes the easy path of repeating a winning formula. Instead, Robert Barnard has worked his way, with freshness and originality, through the customary British variations: the stories involving academic life, the publishing world, the news media, stately homes, ancient titles, the royal family and the down-and-out. The only consistent elements in his novels have been precise perceptions and a larkish sense of humor. In Out of the Blackout, Barnard finds unlikely vitality in one of the most overworked subgenres: the story of an adopted child who sifts through the embers...
...government reacted defensively to news reports about the contract. On Thursday, the country's powerful Council of Ministers released a statement that Chea Vandeth, Cabinet Chief for Prime Minister Hun Sen, was the chairman of JC Royal, and that he would donate any profit from the killing fields to the Sun Fund, a philanthropic organization established by the Prime Minister in 2002. But critics of the deal have not been appeased. Youk Chhang, director of a Khmer Rouge archive called the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen last week seeking his intervention. "Any contract...