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...solves one thorny problem by reordering the dramatist's text. He builds up lots of audience sympathy for the servant-boy (most winningly played, in both English and French, by 13-year-old Peter James), and then has a Frenchman wantonly stab the lad to death atop a supply wagon, which moves offstage. Then Henry enters with the boy's corpse in his arms, and says. 'I was not angry since I came to France/Until this instant'--whereupon he orders his men to kill their prisoners, which occurs earlier in the text. All of this makes the king's most...
Five subjects were traditional no-nos at English dinner parties: sex, politics, religion, illness and the servant problem. Now, according to the first book of etiquette published in Britain in more than 50 years, the forbidden list is down to two: malicious gossip and porn movies. Anything else can be discussed, even in "heated conversation," as long as guests have the wit to avoid the four dreadful icebreakers (Do you live in London? What do you do? Have you any children? Have you been abroad this year?). And if the soup is scorching hot, a guest should spit...
...flip-overs" to give pedestrian words a visual interest, or the trite use of canned "truck shots down the aisles of supermarkets, wheat pouring into a boxcar, a slow zoom into the Capitol dome." He sighs for a past day when the camera was not so much the servant of the word...
City College and the University of Baltimore, which gave him a 1943 law degree. An industrious servant of the local Democratic machine, he spent twelve years working his way up to president of the city council, a post he held for four years before winning the 1971 mayoral race with 85% of the vote...
...first glance Pittsburgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri, 49, appears to be the very model of a modern civil servant. Indeed, he served 15 years with the parks and recreation department before getting elected to the city council in 1970. Slight (5 ft. 6 in.) and unobtrusive, he has the muzzy charm of a maitre d' and avoids controversies as if they were fatal diseases. As a Democrat in a city where his party has a 5-to-1 lead in registrations, Caliguiri (pronounced Cal-i-jeery) would be favored for reelection. But the diffident mayor is so popular that barring...