Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will sit on one of these bumps, and on and among the others, like Gulliver among the breasts of the Brobdingnagian women, will sit my students. It is supposed to help them relax. . . Not long ago Rocky McBeth made a final application to the dean to purchase some old Royal Canadian Air Force parachutes. He wanted to hang them from the classroom ceilings to cover the windows. The aim was to help nervous students let themselves go and concentrate more fully on the arts and sciences...
...most powerful force in the theater today. At the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles this month, two repertory staples got the full treatment: the Piccolo Teatro di Milano presented a visionary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Italian, directed by Giorgio Strehler, while London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in its U.S. debut offered the premiere of Andrei Serban's wrongheaded setting of Puccini's Turandot...
...weapons would not have been stockpiled in such great quantities in one place. But in April the fleet had conducted the largest Soviet naval maneuvers ever in the North Atlantic; the missiles would have played a vital defensive role in the war games. A senior officer in the British Royal Navy says that if the damage estimates are accurate, "the Soviet northern fleet could not put to sea as a viable combat force for some months...
Predictably good was the curtain raiser, England's Royal Shakespeare Compa ny in a production of Much Ado About Nothing, which ran through last week...
...scratched the name Christopher in yellow chalk on the pavement at Bermuda's Royal Navy base. In red, next to this makeshift memorial, he wrote "Marques." A single yellow rose was placed beside the young boy's name and a bouquet of red and white carnations by that of the ship. Only then did Polish Captain Jan Sauer talk about how he and his schooner Zawisza Czarny rescued the survivors of the ill-fated Marques, the stately square-rigger that sank near Bermuda last week killing 17 sailors and trainees, their captain, Stuart Finlay...