Word: royalities
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What's in a name? Magic, it seems, if the name is Gandhi or Nehru, and the place is India. An unofficial royal family that President Reagan aptly compared to the Adams family in the U.S. and that Indians liken to the Mogul emperors and maharajahs of ages past, the House of Nehru has reigned over independent India in one almost unbroken dynastic line, passing the scepter down from one generation to the next. By now the system of one-family rule has become so firmly entrenched that the newsmagazine India Today calls India "a democratic monarchy...
...Quisenberry, bullpen star for the Kansas City Royal, finished third with five first-place votes and 235 points. Quisenberry had a 6-3 record and 44 saves, one short of his major league record...
...older and bigger Washington cousin, the public-affairs-oriented National Public Radio, APR'S bread-and-butter is broadcasting local cultural programming across the country via satellite. Indeed, through its Los Angeles affiliate, the network broadcast 20 events of the Olympic Arts Festival in full, including three Royal Opera performances. And they have done it all on a shoe-string budget of $775,000, with a full-time staff of ten hardy souls at their modest St. Paul headquarters...
...beguiling blend of character study and star quality. The director and designer devise different strategies that can serve a single stage. The company struts its chameleon craft, and the audience relishes a smorgasbord of theater history. Such are the pleasures of repertory, especially as executed by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. In its City home at the Barbican Theater in London, or on its country estate at Stratford-upon-Avon, the R.S.C. may perform as many as five plays a week. The company's tours of North America, though, have displayed only a fraction of its versatility...
...when) one production is sublime and the other soso. Much Ado thrills the senses with its fairy-tale weave of love, honor and wit. Cyrano is a lesser play and a lesser production, a theatrical war horse that keeps buckling at the knees. Yet Cyrano is a more typical Royal Shakespeare evening. The capacious stage of the Gershwin Theater teems with actors and activity; Ralph Koltai's set is brownish, broody, tattered just so; the tone of the crowd scenes is strenuously raunchy; during the battle scene, cannon fire pops your eardrums, and the R.S.C. smoke machine wafts...