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COVER: Digital photomontage by Arthur Hochstein
...cold fact is that Britain, since the legendary days of beamish King Arthur and His Tabb Round, has never had a sovereign so uniformly and usefully beloved as King George. His grandmother Queen Victoria, as most people have forgotten, emphatically was not popular throughout her reign. For years after she married German Prince Albert, his extreme unpopularity and her impetuous flouting of her Prime Ministers made the Crown a target for protests and lampoons. After Albert's death his widow's frantic seclusion, her transports of grief for years on end and her eventual recluse neglect...
MILESTONES: Dan Rather steps down; author Arthur Hailey dies...
...year bought the television arm (including the RCA brand) of French electronics giant Thomson. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. is in talks to acquire the very English MG Rover and has already bought Korean SUV maker Ssangyong. A consortium of Chinese companies bid on the Canadian mining firm Noranda. Says Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, of the dealmaking: "It's not a silly gamble, but it is high risk...
...that six!) seems a lazy way of making rich subject matter easy to digest--and almost guaranteeing a Tony acting nod in the bargain. Then there are the autobiographical shows, which can occasionally be dishy and inspired (Elaine Stritch at Liberty) but just as often superfluous ego trips (Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends). The real growth industry in the past few years, however, has been the puffed-up comedy monologue, from the traditional stand-up of comics like Jackie Mason, Bill Maher and Rob Becker (Defending the Caveman) to the more crafted, character-driven monologues of such performers...