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...down to lazy majesté, perhaps. Visiting a sheep farm in Argyll, Scotland, Britain's Prince Charles volunteered to shear a sheep with electric clippers as he had been taught as a schoolboy in Australia. As far as the Highland sheep was concerned, the Prince of Wales' approach was definitely non-ewe. It lunged between his legs and left him looking, well, sheepish. Worse, said Charles: "I was really worried about those horns. That sheep nearly ruined the dynasty...
...Fringe specializes in heavily satiric parodies of the moronic aspects of "the hurly-burly of modern existence," as exemplified by the morons themselves--the twit who shows up at an opera he does not like 497 times in the hope of catching a glimpse of the royal family, the Scotland Yard detective with all the intellect (if not looks) of an iguana in heat, the one-footed man ("unidexter" is the term used) who wants to try out for the role of Tarzan...
...Party,* the Ecology Party and Actress Vanessa Redgrave's Workers' Revolutionary Party. Among the more serious minor parties, the Scottish Nationalists figure to lose nearly all of their eleven parliamentary seats, thanks to the failure of a referendum that would have led to a separate assembly for Scotland. The Liberals, led by David Steel, could have a real effect on the election outcome if they hang on to most of their 14 seats. The result could be a hung Parliament in which Liberal support would be necessary to form a government. Steel has hinted that his Liberals would...
...skilled workers and the middle class with promises of tax-cuts and curbs on the power of unions. In the industrial North, where many people fear what 'market economy'-style politics may mean for jobs and social services, the drift to the Conservatives was much more negligible. And in Scotland, where the nationalist challenge collapsed, there was actually a swing to Labour--with Teddy Taylor, the Conservative spokesman on Scotland, losing his seat. The scathing portrayal of Mrs. Thatcher by one Northern critic as the "Right Honourable Member for Complacent Southern Suburbia" underlines the festering hostility that she will face...
...Loch Lomond make a good two-day excursion. A fine place to stay is Greywalls Hotel, 18 miles east of Edinburgh, in the Gullane area, which boasts ten golf courses. For a taste of the real Highlands, there is the rocky county of Ross and Cromarty, which rolls across Scotland from the North Sea to the Atlantic. Strathgarve Lodge at Garve offers deer hunting, fishing, golf and well-wrought meals on a 1,000-acre estate (double room with breakfast...