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Parker's picture is no artistic sequel to Gregory's Girl or any of Forsyth's other works. This Scottish stew has more sugar than spice...
America's allies, who would prefer that the U.S. restrain domestic demand by cutting its budget deficit, jawboned back. European finance ministers and central bankers met on Sept. 21 at the Scottish resort of Gleneagles, and word leaked that the Europeans might intervene to prop up the greenback. The dollar thereupon rebounded...
...takes for granted the rightness of open landscape as a site for sculpture, that he did more than any other artist of his time to rekindle that idea and recover some of its archaic roots. Moore's King and Queen, 1952-53, gazing out over the stony ocean of Scottish moors, are the descendants not of 18th century garden sculpture but of something older, more vital and mysterious: the chthonic spirit of place embodied in the dolmens of Carnac or Stonehenge...
...first-night critic politely pronounced that the lead achieved a "healthy mediocrity, as did the rest of the cast." Of course, there was nothing middling about security for the opening at Haddo House, a Scottish village hall not far from the royal summer retreat of Balmoral. The star of the show, don't you know, was Prince Edward, 22. Last summer, taking a minor role in an amateur production of The Taming of the Shrew, he disported himself so well -- and, not incidentally, sold out the hall every night -- that this year he was asked back to star...
...Revolution is always popular, in part because the British uniforms were dazzling. These were not just the well-known red coats, but kilts for Scottish outfits and suits of splendid foppishness for officers. Lord Cornwallis is not required to surrender every weekend, but when he is played by Ken Siegel, he does so in the highest style. Siegel, 42, a management consultant from Needham, Mass., wears high silk stockings, brown-top riding boots, leather-lined, white wool breeches closed with gold buttons, a white waistcoat with a gold pocket watch, a crimson sash, a general's coat in scarlet wool...