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MARRIED. Alan Jay Lerner, 63, author of book and lyrics for Brigadoon, Camelot and My Fair Lady; and British Actress Liz Robertson, 26; she for the first time, he for the eighth; in Billingshurst, England. Lerner, who earlier this month was divorced from College Administrator Nina Bushkin, met Robertson two years ago, when she was chosen to play Eliza Doolittle in a London revival of My Fair Lady...
...decided that the Crown, like Britain, "endured," a view forgivably more optimistic at this moment than his earlier one. On television the eye saw youth, beauty, ceremony and enthusiastic crowds. The ear had been told of troubles hi this one brief moment known as Camelot. Together the eye and ear may have got it about right...
Ronald Reagan practices a fancier personal style altogether. He spent $1,250 for an Inaugural morning suit (the whole elaborately striped works). As soon as he and Nancy got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they began investing the place with a swank and shine it has not had since early Camelot, restoring many of the touches that the minimalist Carter had banned. They put the trumpeters back on the White House balcony to welcome foreign visitors. They fully reinstated Ruffles and Flourishes and Hail to the Chief. They stationed a Marine in dress uniform at the entrance to the West Lobby...
...called the pre-emptive deflective confession. The idea was to assume the guilt in one large abstract gulp in order to silence any further specific inquiries. It did not work well for Kennedy. He spent a full week in a fortress of silence while the reassembled talents of Camelot labored over a text for him. Then he went on national television to take the responsibility of a young woman's death unto himself but also, simultaneously, to leave himself in a state of dazed blamelessness. His biggest mistake-all penitents beware-was to soak the speech in a disagreeable...
...trouble first surfaced in Camelot last June. Reviving his 1960 role as King Arthur in the Lerner and Loewe musical, Richard Burton gave audiences many knights to remember, but was vexed by what seemed to be bursitis. Burton, 55, missed only one of 319 performances on a cross-country tour that ended in Los Angeles. But in March he was forced to leave the show. His doctors diagnosed his illness as a degeneration of the cervical spine, and said the pain was "like the exposed nerve in a tooth multiplied by ten." As he had done in 1967, when...