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...Sir Thomas More? A) a man who stood his religious ground; B) a faithful servant to the King; C) a book store across from Au Bon Pain; or D) the subject of Richard Bolt's insightful and entertaining play A Man For All Seasons, which is being performed this weekend by the Leverett House Arts Society...
...Tehran, Iran's parliament voted to cut the Islamic Republic's relations with Britain if Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government did not officially denounce Rushdie's novel. Britain responded with a carrot and a stick. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the BBC World Service that Britain understood why Muslims criticized the book and said it was "offensive" for comparing Britain to Nazi Germany. But he emphasized that nothing justified Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's order to kill Rushdie...
Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said the death threats against Rushdie and the publishers of The Satanic Verses for allegedly blaspheming Islam were "unwarranted interference" in Britain's internal affairs...
Terrible are the humiliations that Shakespeare inflicts on the aging Sir John Falstaff. Stuffed into a hamper of dirty laundry to escape a jealous husband, the portly knight gets ignominiously flung into the Thames. "Oh, oh, oh," he finally cries as the supposedly merry wives of Windsor burn him with their tapers. In setting this black comedy to music, Verdi and his librettist, Arrigo Boito, degrade the hero still further. "Lord, make him impotent," the women chorus as everyone flails and pummels the fallen hero. And yet after his punishment on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music last...
...many striking effects in German director Peter Stein's production of Falstaff, with which the celebrated Welsh National Opera was making its American debut. But the applause that swept the amiably musty BAM theater was not just for Stein. Nor just for Donald Maxwell's passionate performance as Sir John. Nor even just for the smiling Princess of Wales, Princess Di herself, who appeared in a glowing white satin dress for the black-tie benefit. Also to be applauded and celebrated was the start of a new kind of opera season in a place where opera has been something...