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...Traveling in Italy, he rates a six-man motorcycle escort, busloads of carabinieri and plainclothes police in the crowd. In his 1979 visit to New York City, he was protected by thousands of policemen. In Japan last year police carried special steel racquets to bat away thrown objects-a quaint reminder of the success of the country's ultrastrict gun laws...
...Doll's House is notoriously difficult to stage. Ibsen's once radical idea of making bourgeois ladies and gentlemen into tragic heroes and heroines has become the stuff of conventional theater. The play's social commentary, so bold in the late nineteenth century, sounds amusingly quaint or downright comical if not presented with extreme care. Ibsen weaves his plot slowly and meticulously, revealing his characters as Puppets of Fate. Slaves of Society, each trapped in his own private doll house. The play demands subtlety and intelligent handling of its strong emotions and quirks of fate. Despite obvious effort, the Eliot...
...well as the pains of the monarchy, an institution that only 10% of polled Brit ons wish to see abolished. Among the royal benefits: Highgrove, the 347-acre Gloucestershire country estate Charles purchased for about $2 million last August, his estimated $400,000 annual in come, and such quaint perquisites as first claim to any whale that washes up on the Cornish beaches...
...President, have moved there. The most elegant piece of real estate in town, of course, has been taken by the Ronald Reagans, but there are still a few choice homes for sale in the Georgetown section. Prices start at about $150,000-for one of the neighborhood's quaint 7-ft.-wide townhouses -and go up to sums that would buy a whole subdivision in other U.S. cities...
Perhaps it was the fact that The Game was televised by ABC, or perhaps it was the fact that the Ivy League title was at stake, but most likely, the enthusiasm surrounding the tilt was derived from the time-honored, quaint tradition...