Word: royals
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Ever wonder why elections in Britain tend, on the whole, to be devoid of the symbolic stupidity found in our campaigns? It's because the Brits already have an institutional set-up to relieve the national desire for silly costumes and funny hats. They call it the royal family...
Sure, they mortgage the farm by supporting a bunch of whiny, inbred, philandering malcontents. But it's a small price to pay to preserve the integrity of their political system. The British get their jollies watching royal weddings and royal divorces while they elect colorless but thoughtful politicians like Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Lacking a similar means of letting off symbolic steam, we have to elect movie actors and flag-factory denizens...
...Royal Cello...
...GREAT CATALAN CELLIST PABLO CASALS is rightly credited with elevating the cello to its royal status as a solo instrument, so it is only fitting that Pearl records pays him homage by beginning its six-CD set, The Recorded Cello: The History of the Cello on Record, with his evocative 1915 performance of Schumann's Traumerei. Among the 74 other masters represented here are Enrico Mainardi, whose version of Dvorak's Concerto in B minor is stately and deeply hued; and Gregor Piatigorsky, playing variations on Paganini with heart- skipping joy. All the tracks demonstrate the delicate timbres and subtle...
...Royal addition to Harvard. Bodyguards follow him to class to protect him President Rudenstine's incessant pleas for financial...