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...care to keep his voice down--sometimes he screams to provoke his diffident witnesses, sometimes he just chortles in glee. "There are too many clues in this room" he sings out in a high-pitched warble as he makes his first inspection of the murder room. Throughout, a heavy Anglo-Frog accent blankets his speech, sometimes making him difficult to understand. Most of the other actors manage to sound vaguely foreign without making their speech an impediment, and Finney is to blame for his bizarre patois...
...should anyone revive this creaky play, the hit of the London stage in 1841? In the chronology of the English comedy of manners, Anglo-Irish Dion Boucicault flounders between the astringency of Sheridan and the epigrams of Wilde. Yet he took a romantic's delight in character. London Assurance is peopled with enough eccentrics to fill the portmanteau of a Victorian novel. Welding this strength to the polished ensemble skills of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Adapter-Director Ronald Eyre has transformed an old chestnut into a parody of what is already a near parody of Restoration comedy...
...Hebrides represented a kind of no man's land between the British and French colonies in the South Pacific. Neither power showed much interest in them, but as traders from both countries had settled there, a protocol was drawn up in 1906 to provide for a joint Anglo-French administration...
...miners of Appalachia, Miller has become a symbol of new possibilities in their lives. Like Miller, they are mainly of Anglo-Saxon stock. On the whole, they are proud, patriotic, sometimes violent and yet often deeply religious. For them, the mines are generally an alternative to grinding rural poverty. Those who do not flee to the city love the raw, knobby hill country and the sense of freedom from urban constrictions and pressures...
...idea dates back to the ancient Babylonian Code of Hammurabi that provided public recompense for citizens who had been robbed. That practice did not flourish in the Anglo-Saxon system as governments came to adopt the view that crime is an offense against society; efforts to control it concentrated on punishing the criminal. Now that approach has begun to change. Says Saul Wexler, who handles compensation cases for the Illinois attorney general's office: "The innocent victim often suffers more than the assailant who is sent to prison...