Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might be involved in drug trafficking. Cocaine arrests in Trinidad soared to 150 in 1983 from three in 1978. In the Bahamas, three Cabinet ministers in the government of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling resigned from their posts and two others were fired just before the release of a Royal Commission report that portrayed a government riddled with cocaine corruption...
...drudgy Tom sets the play's pace and defeats the efforts of Herrmann to animate this stick--a challenge not usually above him, as he demonstrated two years ago in Plenty, playing another man of propriety married to a disturbed idealist. Covington, Tyzack and Haig (imported from the Royal Court Theater in London, where Tom and Viv was first produced last year) perform admirably in better roles, ones with a little shading, irony and spunk. Max Stafford- Clark's direction fills the stage at Manhattan's Public Theater with mausoleum air and anguished pauses: if this production were a poem...
...tuneful, folkish fable became an undisguised metaphor of the new social order in the farmers' and workers' state. He illustrated the class struggle, for example, by having the villagers manhandle Prince Ottokar at the opera's conclusion. But with Honecker occupying what used to be the Semper's royal box, the impulse to political orthodoxy was undoubtedly strong...
...troubles of America would be blamed on him, pinned to his purple cloak. But there they would disappear in the glare of the royal, Reagan glow. A Teflon King makes a great scapegoat...
...wait. Have we not lost the knack of royalty? Does it not take years of grooming--a grooming America does not provide--to form a king, to develop the royal flair? True, but all the more reason to take advantage of President Reagan's acting experience. Admittedly, in the past, we have not manufactured royalty, but we have not manufactured illusion. Now, Hollywood can make its first contribution to American culture. A movie star is just the man to be America's first king...