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Tanya Selvaratnam makes a fine assistant to Dr. Seward, but given her accent and appearance, director Jed Weintrob probably should have changed her character's name to something slightly less Anglo-Saxon than Wesley...
...that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor...twelve-foot ceilings...two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help... Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachsund. The floor was a deep green marble, and it went on and on. It led to a five-foot walnut staircase that swept up in a sumptuous curve to the floor above. It was the sort of apartment the mere thought of which ignites flames...
...like Wells (constructed between 1186 and 1300) it acquired a definitive grandeur as the sign of the Church Militant. No cathedral will fit in the Royal Academy, but other things have. To see the engrafting of a high ecclesiastical and court style from across the Channel onto the Anglo-Saxon stock, set forth in these objects, many of which are of the highest aesthetic quality, is fascinating...
Other victors included Kurt Schmoke, a Democratic prosecutor who became the first Black elected mayor in Baltimore, and Democratic state legislator Carrie Saxon Perry, 56, winner in Hartford's city hall race and the first Black woman chosen to lead a major Northeastern city...
...called French "the common language of educated men." Today that distinction incontestably goes to English in the fields of science, technology, economics and finance, not to mention movies, rock music and air travel. As French President Francois Mitterrand said last year, "France is engaged in a 'war' with Anglo-Saxon...