Word: bosworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of guy who knows everything except when to shut up. He finishes his mother-in-law's Double-Crostic, his father-in-law's sentences and the neighbors' bridge bids-in short, the perfect quiz contestant. But when his sister-in-law (Patricia Bosworth) helps con him into going on a quiz show, he refuses $96,000 after he discovers that his opponent has got a fast shuffle. All this drew exactly 262 laughs one evening in Boston. Until curtain time in New York this week, where Howie opens the season, all hands were working...
...whom understandably enough wants to leave home, and the younger who does so by marrying a Mexican. The hard, bright manner of Elaine Stritch in the role of the elder daughter provided the only relief throughout an evening otherwise drowned in sentimental goo. As for the performances of Patricia Bosworth, the second Muldoon offspring, and Gerald Sarracini, the Mexican bridegroom, they are workmanlike but nothing more...
Author Kendall's big book, which has been hailed excitedly in Britain, differs from its predecessors by virtue of the raw material on which it is based. Kendall argues that after Henry Tudor destroyed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth. he was careful, as Henry VII, to take away Richard's reputation as well as his crown. Tudor historians (whom Shakespeare followed) spent the next hundred years or so blackening the defeated monarch in order to whitewash their own regime. So, Kendall argues, all Tudor evidence is suspect; only the evidence of Richard's contemporaries should...
...wear these glories for a day?" He sends two little princes, his nephews, to a strangling bed, and sheds Buckingham as coldly as last season's skin ("None are for me/That look into me with considerate eye"). The rebellions begin, and Richard is slain at last on Bosworth Field...
Shocking Affair. Henry, the first Tudor, who himself usurped the throne by force of arms at the Battle of Bosworth, had every reason to blacken the memory of Richard in order to make his own crown more secure. It was at Henry's direction, says the Richardists, that Morton...