Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is a juicy subject for the nation's best-known conservative writer. With considerable relish and fluent wit, Buckley stirs a plot involving the treasonous activities of Britain's leading scientist and the Soviet-bred daughter of an American journalist. The amiable Oakes frequently gets lost in the flashbacks and Kremlinology, but that is to be expected. Buckley's bad guys always get more attention than his good guys...
...Westminster Abbey, the couple kissed happily for the cameras. Then the bride-to-be gave reporters a look at her engagement ring, a $37,000 oval ruby surrounded by ten drop diamonds that Andrew helped design. Asked what they saw in each other, the Prince fumbled for an answer. "Wit? Charm? And good looks?" prompted his future wife. "Yes, probably," he replied, "and the red hair." The girl who would be Princess laughed and nudged Andrew's arm somewhat sheepishly. Ferguson's official title will be Her Royal Highness the Princess Andrew. "A great honor," she allowed. "Much looking forward...
...start assembling onstage. Waldo Chatterway, a society gossip who has spent the past 25 years cultivating the "tall poppies" of Continental royalty, decides to move back to his native London for good. He visits his longtime friend Severus Egg, "the last of the romantic poets," who retains a malicious wit and the conviction, in his mid-70s, that "I have survived into the era of the goody-goodies." Egg, naturally, has a black valet and factotum named Bacon...
...Anglo-India, a new kind of movie: fast, bold, harsh and primitive, like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat. My Beautiful Laundrette has no echo of eulogy in its street wit, no time for nuances of character in its rush to spray-paint a teeming social fresco. Hanif Kureishi, 29, the film's author, says he originally planned a three- or four- hour work with a Godfather sprawl, but settled for 93 minutes and (pounds) 600,000 from Britain's Channel 4. The pinch shows, and so does the pluck. Kureishi's story shifts moods...
...Travesties is not a travesty of drama, but its not high comedy either. Bring your notebook on WWI culture and a good portion of patience, and you'll get a good helping of learned wit in return. But if you want easy-to-appreciate comedy, or at least something with a faster pace, you'd better check elsewhere this weekend...