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...first few weeks of the last World Cup, France reverberated with hundreds of thousands of excited football supporters. Kilted, blue-faced Scotsmen roared merrily along the Champs Elys?es, and expatriate Iranians descending on Lyons could barely contain their pride at making the finals. Orange-draped Dutchmen in full march and samba-stepping Brazilians in canary yellow clashed only in tempos and hues as they passed one another, each figuring they were on the way to victory...
...always been a lot of bands. The Scots are very congenial and really love to get together. It's a real pub culture. Playing in the pubs, not just in clubs, was a very common way of reaching a live audience. You would play for a lot of drunken Scotsmen. They would all sing along--that's just the way the culture is over there...
...director these days, especially when the genre is as terminal as bel canto: a collection of pretty tunes hung on the dusty skeleton of a story. Zambello's solution may be vilified in tartan-loving, canary-fancying quarters: unlike traditional stagings of Lucia, this one includes no kilts, no Scotsmen, no mountain greenery of any kind...
...BLUE NILE: HATS (A&M). A trio of ethereally rocking Scotsmen, the Blue Nile weaves a sound mosaic that is part sci-fi parable and part Arcadian fantasy. Gentle, uninsistent and insinuating, a single listen to The Downtown Lights could convert anyone this side of an Aerosmith fan to full-fledged Nile fever...
Begin and his settlers should beware of their scheme to control the West Bank through colonization [Jan. 17]. The British tried similar tactics when they imported Scotsmen to Northern Ireland during the early 17th century. The descendants of those settlers have achieved dubious results as we see in Ulster today. Begin's settlement policy may be creating an evil that will curse the area for generations to come...