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...Anguil-la's most formidable weapon is a barnacle-encrusted French cannon last used in 1796-but British forces have remained on Anguilla ever since the invasion. Their relationship with the locals has been happy. Last year, on the anniversary of Operation Sheepskin, the occupation forces solemnly judged sack races and high jumps at a field day while older Anguillans tacked up signs reading ST. KITTS NEVER-BRITAIN FOREVER. Prime Minister Edward Heath's Conservative government eventually came to the reluctant conclusion that the Anguillans simply would not accept an association with their neighbors, and that colonial status...
Hovering miserably around 40, Rock Composer Soloway has a score of gold platters, his picture on the cover of TIME, an airplane and a triplex atop Manhattan's General Motors building. But like something is missing. Truth, maybe. Or beauty. Whatever it is, girls start refusing his sack and his own psychiatrist (Jack Warden) muses, "Mr. Soloway, we must not rule out the possibility that you are a bird-a loony bird...
...much-chivvied Christopher Tietjens-mirrors, with love and squalor, the death of prewar British society. The Good Soldier (1915) is so subtle and shapely a domestic tragedy that it very nearly makes good the narrator's extravagant claim: "The death of a mouse from cancer is the whole sack of Rome by the Goths, and I swear to you that the breaking up of our little foursquare coterie was such another unthinkable event...
...carriage. Esther tried writing a novel about herself and that didn't work. And then she tried different ways of killing herself and one way worked better than the other so they put her away. As Sylvia Plath says in her poem "Daddy," "They pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue." The Bell Jar is a description of their jar of glue and the way their fusty inept hands fumbled Esther's embarrassed and bruised parts. Her hilarity is as black as it is defiant; she refuses to be retrieved...
...portrayed as an arbitrary prig, none more so than Wellington (Christopher Plummer). Yet even these lead soldiers give more credible performances than Rod Steiger in his oppressive, self-congratulatory Napoleon. Scene after marching scene, every familiar Steigerian trick passes in review: the pop eyes, the mouth like a gunny sack with the strings drawn, and below all, the voice that CLIMBS TO A BELLOW AND THEN falls to a portentous whisper...