Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princess Margaret tipsily suggests that the new royal baby be christened Johnny Walker, then collapses in a drunken heap. The Pope comes on as just another hipster in wraparound shades, with a banjo and a Texas drawl. And Ronald Reagan spends most of his time in pajamas searching for his missing brain...
These two acts make up Principia Scriptoriae, a passionate, enlightened and altogether admirable play by Richard Nelson. Now being performed off-Broadway, it has been accorded a rare honor for an American play: Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company will produce it in London this fall. The cumbersome title is a punning Latinate reference to the rules for sound literary construction and the morals that artists ought to live by. Yet Nelson focuses on two characters who are not artists, merely intelligent men. The narrative is less concerned with the fate of the poet than with their enduring misunderstanding and mistrust...
...also likely to risk fewer fliers than a daylight attack. Taking all these factors into account, Crowe and the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that additional aircraft would be necessary. The ones most ideally suited to the mission were the Air Force's F-111s at Britain's Royal Air Force Base at Lakenheath. Reason: like the Navy A-6 craft, the F-111s are equipped with infrared bombing sights capable of highly accurate nighttime targeting...
...peak of $113 billion in 1981, Saudi oil earnings dropped to $28 billion last year. Uncertainty over petroleum prices and revenues prompted Fahd last month to take the unprecedented step of postponing approval of the country's new budget until summer. To the Saudis, accustomed to decision making by royal decree, the delay was a sign of indecision and uncertainty at the country's highest political level...
Moments after Fairfax is married to a blindfolded Elsie, he is rescued by Meryll, who disguises him as his long-away son, a royal yeomen newly assigned to the Tower guard. With Fairfax on the lam under a false indentity, Elsie finds herself stuck a bride for a much longer haul than Fairfax's scheduled execution had suggested...