Word: welsh
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...same can be said of the summer's other productions. From Britain, Glimmerglass has imported a splendidly colorful mounting by the Welsh National Opera of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard. And Swedish director Peter Stormare, a protege of Ingmar Bergman's, has put Mozart's Don Giovanni in a surprising, provocative new light. This Don is an aging lech so enervated by his exploits that he spends most of the opera being pushed around like a paraplegic. The approach may not be quite what Mozart had in mind, but the gutsy cast of young American singers...
...filmmakers are ever mindful of the glory days, nearly a half-century ago, when the Ealing Studios produced a smart series of social comedies. Two of Grant's new films aim for that mixture of nostalgia and satire. The Englishman ... is writer-director Christopher Monger's fable about a Welsh village whose denizens are determined that their local hill (elevation 300 m) be declared a mountain (elevation at least 305 m). Grant, as the English surveyor who is finally seduced by their cause, struts and tut-tuts through his part with authority, but all his patented exertions can't keep...
British Prime Minister John Major last week dared his Conservative rivals to "put up or shut up," and today, the Tories put up. John Redwood, a right-wing member of Major's own Cabinet, resigned his post (Welsh Secretary) and declared his candidacy for the Conservative leadership contest that Major himself had boldly scheduled for July 4. Redwood's move ended the appearance of Cabinet unity that Major's supporters had hoped would ensure him victory. The fight now centers on rightist opposition to Britain's economic intergration with Europe. Redwood, a standard-bearer for the Euro-skeptics, read...
...most important Wright-designed project never executed in his lifetime. Monona Terrace is a five-level, semicircular, 1.8 hectare convention center now under construction at the edge of Lake Monona in Madison. Wright spent his youth in the state capital, which is about 65 km east of Taliesin (Welsh for "shining brow"), his home and architecture school at Spring Green. Those historic connections with Madison must have given Wright a special feeling for Monona Terrace. Between 1938 and 1958, he designed at least four different versions of the project. (His pupil and son-in-law William Wesley Peters produced another...
...that he will not be extradited to Singapore, where he was working when he executed the trades. Leeson is being held in a German prison. His lawyer said he might give British authorities information that would lead to an arrest warrant for his client. University of Pennsylvania law professor Welsh White told TIME Daily that although he has never heard of a defense attorney seeking an indictment of his client, he understands why Kempf is doing so, since the British justice system is not as harsh as Singapore...