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...this makes for much rough talk and romantic warbling, with which Donnybrook! at its best has little to do. Matters perk up when a pub-owning widow (Su san Johnson) sings a lament for a spouse she could not lament less; matters tinkle prettily when the wedding guests toast the bride. Matters are brightest of all by way of Eddie Foy's flings and flashbacks into American vaudeville. When Foy dances on his knees, or his feet seem caught in twisted yarn, or he just sidles off from Ireland and the show, he provides literal footnotes to a great...
Banda won the election and became Prime Minister. In token of his gratitude, he took his Cabinet to Buddharakitha's temple for the customary postinaugural rites. He also gave the post of Minister of Health to Buddharakitha's intimate friend, the handsome widow Vimala Wijewardene, then 47. But when the high priest demanded a $6,000,000 government contract for the construction of a sugar factory and government concessions for a shipping company he planned to set up, Banda balked. Buddharakitha, who had reveled in his position as kingmaker, felt that he had been publicly humiliated. He decided...
...practicing ophthalmologist. As a Buddhist, Somarama was exasperated at the Prime Minister's delay in fulfilling his campaign promises to Buddhism. As an ophthalmologist, he was anxious to have his contract at the State Indigenous Hospital renewed, and therefore needed Buddharakitha's good offices, for the widow Wijewardene had put the high priest on the hospital's appointment board. Plainly, Somarama was Buddharakitha...
...house is cantilevered over a cliff, like a bird's nest on the muzzle of a memorial cannon. In the driveway is a Jaguar sedan named Black Widow. In the two-story living room is a red canvas swing hung from parachute cords. In the dressing-table mirror is the reason for the house, the car and the swing...
Since Prime Minister Bandaranaike had also imposed total censorship on all news reports about the troubles, the claim was impossible to verify. But it was clear that the widow's chief concern was for the views of the Singhalese majority, whose votes had elected her, and who, through the years of British dominion, had been eclipsed by the better-educated Christians and the more industrious Tamils. And those who had mistaken the widow's campaigning tears for womanly weakness were having dry-eyed second thoughts...