Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roger Mudd, George Will or Sam Donaldson can draw blood. Secretary of State George Shultz can be droningly evasive and still be asked back; lesser fry do not dare. (Andrei Gromyko doesn't have to face the problem at all.) No American politician could get away with an Englishman's jolly "I say, would you mind terribly if I ducked that?" He is both "guest" and adversary, which explains the peculiar studio atmosphere of wary cordiality: neither side wants to appear either a patsy or the heavy...
...many other visions, some quite surprising. The 19th century American Thomas Cole grandly evokes the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden; old sobersides Albrecht Dürer brings a light-hearted touch to, of all things, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and John Martin, a 19th century Englishman with a 20th Century-Fox mind, offers a Cinemascopic Belshazzar's Feast that obviously showed Hollywood the epic handwriting on the wall...
This is not the only new work in Venice this year to extract some poetry from the archaic or mythic past. There are, for instance, the canvases of Christopher Lebrun, a young Englishman whose thickly mortared landscapes featuring cypresses, caverns and the winged horse Pegasus have a Böcklin-like drama that is not wholly the result of judicious quotation. But quotation does rule. This Biennale has more plaster casts in it than the cellar of a Viennese art academy: the abused relics of antiquity dragged back as conceptual décor for a dying art tradition...
...white and black, have solved the dilemma by competing for other countries. Olympic Hopeful Sydney Maree, for instance, will become a U.S. citizen next week; the Villanova track star married an American 3½ years ago. Budd took a different course. Her father Frank is the grandson of an Englishman, entitling her to British citizenship. As part of a secret deal struck by Frank Budd, Labuschagne and London's Daily Mail, the family was flown to England last month. For a reported $300,000 trust fund and living expenses, the Mail has exclusive rights to Zola's story...
...real story is whether the proud and cheeky Englishman is Ashok or Ashton. Cross, best remembered for his athletics in Chariots of Fire, gives a strong, unfussy performance and looks equally at home in British regimental uniform and silk dhoti. The uneasy citizen of opposing worlds continually suffers from cultural schizophrenia: "I . . . shall always be two people in one skin, which is not a comfortable thing to be." Only Anjuli can make him whole. As the Indian princess, Amy Irving is properly equipped with saris and cliches, but she looks as though she had been dipped in cocoa...