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Lithgow avoids reducing Ellard to a Georgian stereotype. His wide chewy expressions and drawly English lessons--"Bah-urd" for board, "Faw-Werk" for fork--are hilarious. But Lithgow also convinces the audience of Ellard's softness and struggle to learn the language he teaches...
...note repeats (R) its predecessor, or goes up (U), or down (D). The first note of the melody is represented by an asterisk. For example, the famous signature of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would be written *RRD. Mary Had a Little Lamb works out like this: *DDUUR RDRRU URD. Graduates who this June march up the aisle to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance-*DUUDD DDUUD UUUUU-may well sing *URRUD DUUDR UUU, Auld Lang Syne, when next they meet. Letter codes for musical compositions are arranged in alphabetical order, with classical melodies carried through the first 16 notes...
...most cases, the precise identity of the affliction and the microbe causing it was unknown. Cautious doctors described their patients' illnesses simply as "URD" or "URI" (for upper respiratory disease, or upper respiratory infection) and let it go at that. Whatever its nature, the illness was emptying schools and offices, stripping military installations of active-duty personnel, and decimating Broadway casts. Jane Morgan in the title role and eight other players in Mame had to yield their places to understudies. The cast of George Ml had five out. Playing the barber in Man of La Mancha, Leo Blum became...
Southeast across the Caribbean, in oil-rich, poverty-ridden Venezuela, Cuba's Fidel Castro finds plenty of friends among Communists, among dissident far-left extremists of President Romulo Betancourt's Democratic Action (AD) and among leaders of the Republican Democratic Union (URD). Although a member of Betancourt's three-party coalition, URD is opportunistically trying to build up support for future elections by hoisting Castro's banner. URD's most vociferous Castro supporter has been Betancourt's Foreign Minister, Ignacio Luis Arcaya...
...Betancourt's instructions, Arcaya hung around San José and Panama for a week playing golf, while back home Betancourt ironed out relationships with URD Boss Jovito Villalba. When Arcaya gingerly returned to Caracas last week, 600 Fidelistas welcomed him at the airport-and Betancourt fired him. A government split was averted only because URD agreed to sacrifice Arcaya...