Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly, the White House console phone with the special red button at Powell's right hand buzzes. "Yes, sir," answers Powell, sitting up at attention. "The boss" wants him. Shrugging into his jacket, patting his pockets to make sure he has cigarettes and matches, Powell hurries off to see probably the only person he has never kept waiting...
...some anachronistic Rod Stewart haircuts. Frontal nudity in the National Theater is like a flasher in a cathedral. Worse follows: the slaughter of two of the Celts by a squad of Roman invaders and the sodomizing of a third. This sight encouraged the leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Horace Cutler, to send down telegraphic thunderbolts about the renewal of the National's subsidy. Censor-without-Portfolio Mary Whitehouse read about-but did not see-The Romans, and immediately swore out a complaint. Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Squad was sent to investigate. The battle was joined...
...Brenton and the production. Playwright Edward Bond weighed in with a defense so oblique that he never mentioned the play by name. He did, however, call for the resignation of Fenton, while John Osborne, who has had his own wrangles with the censor, addressed a sally to the Guardian: "Sir-I don't go to the theater to see a lot of buggery. We get quite enough of that at home...
...done" is a tenet of the English courts. Off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater has done right by The Winslow Boy, which first appeared on Broadway in 1947. The "well-made play" was much in vogue at that time, and in the carpentry of artifice, Britain's Sir Terence Rattigan probably had no peer...
...reaction, hundreds of famous and distinguished Britons have petitioned the church to keep the 1662 book in the "mainstream of worship." Among signers: former Prime Minister Lord Home, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, Historian Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), Conductor Sir Adrian Boult, Sculptor Henry Moore, Novelist William Golding, Lord Olivier and Glenda Jackson. Actor Paul Scofield says Britons feel "dismay" over the likely loss of so much "that is deeply poetic and influential in our language...