Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sir David was wrong; for in Cannes, the Brits were proving they have the world's most vital, varied cinema. Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives -- the best film at the festival and the winner of a critics' prize -- portrays, through popular songs, a Liverpool family trapped in economic poverty and emotional repression. Nicolas Roeg's Track 29, written by Dennis Potter, goes splendidly berserk satirizing American males, obsessed with their toys, and American females, driven to homicidal embrace. In Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, three women murder their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner...
...rise as a world power. This year Britons are saluting the victory with pageants, bonfires and banquets. Trouble is, the occasion has also spawned scholarly works and an exhibit at the National Maritime Museum that debunk myths about the English victory. Among them: that the genius of Sir Francis Drake was almost solely responsible for Spain's defeat. These accounts argue that stormy weather contributed powerfully to the armada's defeat...
This has hardly amused British patriots. Lectured the Times of London: "National anniversary festivities should properly be concerned with projecting myths, not recording facts." In Sir Francis' hometown of Plymouth, City Councilor Reg Scott fumed, "It's outrageous of them to play down Drake's role. I was raised to think of this as a great victory...
...book from which this deliriously erotic movie has been adapted. The author set out to investigate the murder, never officially solved, of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, Kenya's most notorious womanizer (played in the film by a subtly predatory Charles Dance). Fox concluded that the murderer was Sir John Henry ("Jock") Delves Broughton (Joss Ackland), a man phlegmatically devoted to squandering a fortune. Broughton's motive was jealousy. It seems that Diana, his beautiful young wife (Greta Scacchi, who projects a movie rarity, authentic sensuality), had married him mostly to hurry him along through the rest...
...confirmed revisionists, such remarks seem like more of the moss-crusted obstructionism they feel has slowed scholarly progress for centuries. They point to the huffy removal of Sir Thomas More from Oxford by his father in the 15th century because the curriculum had added the newly "with it" subject of Greek. They like to recall the warning of Princeton President James McCosh in 1884 that removing Latin and Greek requirements would leave "the whole ancient world . . . unknown even to our educated...