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...fluttered independently, articulating a sweetly deranged sign language. Ralph Richardson was no matinee idol?no ethereal saint like John Gielgud, whose beautiful voice could coax meaning out of a computer printout; no demon lover like Laurence Olivier, with hellfire in his eyes and the coil of sexual danger. Sir Ralph walked the earth, with sure, heavy strides. When he left it last week at 80, his place was secure in the triple crown of great English actors whose work spanned and illuminated the century...
...quite a tragic figure. Though he never played Lear, the Shakespearean role that might have been written for him, Richardson found that doddering majesty as the politician in Storey's Early Days (1980). Wily but too innocent, flirting with senility, raging at the dying sun of empire, Sir Ralph painted an indelible image of a civilization's decline...
...craft, he was meticulous in creating them, blending an exhaustive reading of the script with acute observation of Everyman in the street. It was this creature whom Richardson embodied and alchemized into art. In finding something extraordinary in the ordinary man, in revealing his dreams and despair, Sir Ralph proved himself the most fearlessly modern actor of his great generation. Nature had the right idea after...
...sorry, sir," the waitress said. "But we stopped making that flavor about 10 or 12 years ago. We had a huge overstock of that stuff back then, and it all rotted...
...start of a visit to Canada and the U.S.: "It is the gravest [breakout] in our present history, and there must be a very deep inquiry." An embarrassed James Prior, Britain's seasoned, avuncular Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, immediately announced a high-level inquiry headed by Sir James Hennessy, Britain's chief inspector of prisons...