Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peking's plans are more cloudy than black and white. The Chinese insist, for instance, that the current talks concern only Peking and London. When Hong Kong's Governor, Sir Edward Youde, announced that he would attend the discussions as a representative of the colony's citizens, he was quickly upbraided. "Mr. Youde," said a Chinese statement, "can only represent the British government in the talks...
...only comedian who dresses like a rock star.") Richard Avedon has photographed Eddie for the cover of Rolling Stone; in its September issue, Playgirl will proclaim him one of the ten sexiest men in America; he has thunderstormed his family and friends with costly gifts. But not even Sir Derrick of the Round Table can fend off the demands on King Eddie's time. "I have no privacy at all," Eddie notes solemnly. "It used to be that I couldn't walk down the street in peace. Now I'm followed by people even when...
...made more than 60 changes in her government, including twelve in her 21-member Cabinet. Thatcher assured the wary that the ideological balance had not shifted to the right, but the new government certainly bore her stamp. Pym and Whitelaw, for example, were replaced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe and his deputy Leon Brittan, both devoted Thatcherites. Nigel Lawson, who proved abrasive but loyal as Secretary of Energy, took over at Treasury...
...houses, is presenting Sheridan's The Rivals, with sumptuous scenery by John Gunter, all of it devoured by a cast that includes Michael Hordern and Tim Curry. Also at the National: Eduardo de Filippo's Inner Voices, starring that foxy grandpa of British acting nobility, Sir Ralph Richardson...
...Titian, the work of the Fontainebleau mannerists, Quinten Massys, English court miniaturists, Darer and Mathi as Grünewald. It seems to range backward and forward in time, a web of discreet allusions that seldom rise to open quotation. Thus in drawing Cecily Heron, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More, Holbein selected the pose of another woman with the same first name, Cecilia Gallerani, the model for Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine. If one could not deduce from his work that Holbein's was one of the best minds of the northern Renaissance, the names...