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...relieve Gordon at Khartoum? To lift the siege of Lucknow? The British were vividly time traveling. The ministers of the ex-empire took a bracing, almost archaically principled stand-a position that itself seemed an exercise in nostalgia: quaint, perhaps, but admirable. Honor was mentioned. The imperial ships set sail like positrons on an expedition into reverse time...
...will fall out of the sky one afternoon and land on J.C. Penney's. But in the Falklands, we have a war-if it came to that-that would presumably be conducted in what used to be the great colonial Elsewhere, the distant and exotic battlefield that soldiers sail away to. It would be a regressive war fought for the most part with means that seem almost primitive-ships at sea, for example, and marines...
First British vessel to sail was the nuclear-powered submarine H.M.S. Superb, followed by two aircraft carriers. Queen Elizabeth's middle son, Prince Andrew, 22, was among the helicopter pilots recalled from leave for duty on the carriers. In spite of its swift and energetic response, Britain's warships would need upwards of five days to reach the Falklands...
...several lower-level officials. Clearly, the British felt shamed and enraged by the Argentine take-over. Thatcher, bitterly attacked for her supply-side economic policy, is now determined to win big in the Falklands and rally support around the Tory government. In the several days since the fortilla set sail, though, public opinion has calmed in England. Most British subjects could accept nominal Argentine sovereignty in exchange for the evacuation of troops and restoration of the status quo of the islands. Even the determined "Iron Lady" prime minister must now realize the untenability of defending the Falklands indefinitely against...
Many of his best pictures were hung in England. Gainsborough copied his gnarled-oak thickets; Turner's early marine paintings were done under the partial spell of Ruisdael's sea pieces, his slim parallelograms of rusty sail leaning on the wind-chopped estuary. Most of all, John Constable was inspired by his sense of nature seen fresh, without evident convention: the patches of scudding sunlight on wheat fields, the broken arc of a rainbow, the painterly delight in filling three-quarters of a canvas with high piling clouds. Time and again, one sees images in Constable that might...