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...least as far back as Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, novelists have been interested in setting imaginary characters loose against a background of authentic, tumultuous events. Small wonder. History is, after all, drama readymade, an endless pageant playing at all hours in the public domain. Writers who elect to fuse their private inventions with the collective memory of an actual past can create electrifying effects. Witness the towering achievements of War and Peace or the enduring popular appeal of Gone With the Wind. The formula has its pitfalls, of course, in the hands of the inept: cardboard people posing stiffly...
...upgrade their position in society as well as make money." One of their proudest moments came when a group of them toured their new factory. Says former Passamaquoddy Council Chairman John Stevens: "We almost couldn't believe the huge buildings. So many people working for us, calling us 'sir.' It was overwhelming...
...financial-services areas, including securities, Eurobonds, commodities and foreign exchange, will be governed by a series of self-regulatory organizations. Their activity, in turn, will be supervised by the Securities Investment Board, a private-sector body whose decisions are backed by the force of the law. Says SIB Chairman Sir Kenneth Berrill: "The aim in the U.K. was to get the rules applied and interpreted by practitioners, and not by lawyers." Now, even some Conservative Party members feel that a tough U.S.-style Securities and Exchange Commission is needed. Says former Prime Minister Edward Heath: "I do not believe that...
Butler opens with the imminent death of Sir Robert Charles, who is the current Minister of Defense and the patriarch of a poor but prestigious family. Having recently had a heart attack, Sir Robert is more dead than alive, surviving only with the aid of various life-support machines. Lady Charles has decided to put him out of his misery and pull the plug--much to the pleasure of heir apparent Hugo and his twin sister, Annabel. Planning ahead, the family has placed him in a coffin right in the middle of the Charles estate drawing room. The youngest...
Just as the ceremony is about to take place, however, Sir Robert is mysteriously murdered by other means. An Inspector Harris appears to solve the case, and the ensuing chaos is pure Python bliss. The secrets of the Charles family are both surprising and hilarious, but this reviewer isn't telling anything...