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...full title of this seldom produced opera, I Puritani di Scozia, is never used any more. That is because Bellini's Italian librettist, Carlo Pepoli, thought Plymouth was in Scotland instead of southern England. The curtain rises to find the Puritans in league with Cromwell in his battle against the Cavaliers loyal to the Stuarts. The Puritan leader, Lord Walton, is even holding prisoner the widow of Charles I, Enrichetta...
Sarah's own mother died when she was three. Much later her father died. Then her nanny died. Everybody seems to die on Sarah, even her beloved Abyssinian cat, leaving her pretty much alone with a house in London, a house in Scotland and a frantic sense of emptiness that keeps her asking: "What is it that I must do?" In this mood she meets an unnamed psychiatrist and executes a textbook case of transference. When, in less than three years, her analyst dies too, Sarah attempts suicide (as she had done more than once before), then withdraws...
Battle of the Sexes is an odd adaptation. A Peter Sellers movie based nominally on James Thurber's The Catbird Seat, it transports the action from New York to an old-fashioned woolens company in Scotland. Verrry Brrritish...and verrry funny...
Like Whelan's gallows humor, the mood was black last week in Nottingham. Along with the rest of Britain's 270,000 mineworkers from Scotland to South Wales, they cast ballots on whether to go on a strike that could throw the country into chaos. The outcome will not be known until this week, but the confrontation between the miners and the government has already been joined...
...cause of Europe for fear that they might cause momentary domestic complications. As a result, governments indulge in a depressing litany of mutual recrimination and petty squabbles. The British are sniping at the Bonn government for not providing enough money for a regional fund to aid depressed areas like Scotland; the Germans are angry with the French for floating the franc and thus trying to underprice German exports; the Dutch are still seething over Britain's sauve qui peut attitude during the oil crisis; the French continue to deal with the Community in the same haughty way that they...