Word: viscountal
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...DIED. VISCOUNT TONY-PANDY, 88, silver-tongued Speaker of the British House of Commons from 1976 to 1983, whose Welsh-accented "Order! Order!" set the tone for parliamentary debate; in Cardiff, Wales...
...Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life," wrote Melbourne William Lamb. I would generally agree with the nineteenth century British viscount, but a house is not in the private sphere; it is a common home to many. Religious content can enrich house life, provided the religious impulse is used to teach others...
...while I'm on the subject of the "Young Guns" series, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a sequel to "The Three Musketeers." I think producers Joe Roth and Roger Birnbaum picked this story with the fact in mind that Dumas wrote Twenty Years After and The Viscount of Bragellone to continue the Musketeer saga. But I'm sure that Roth and Birnbaum will change the former to Five Years After, a 40-year-old Musketeer couldn't possibly be cute...
...breads and doughs, sugar, cake decorating and, during this week, the complex and artful world of chocolate. The presiding guru is Herr Doktor Albert Kumin, 76, the Swiss dessert genius. Although he has never published a cookbook, in the rarefied world of professional chefs Kumin is regarded as a viscount of chocolate, a prince of pastry. He is the creator of the dessert menu at Manhattan's Four Seasons and a former White House pastry chef...
...pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast of roast viscount. Like David Lean, Oliveira turns 80 this year. Like Luis Bunuel, he makes gaily macabre films -- an old master's last laugh at life and death...