New York Times on British stuff
By alice | January 12, 2010
I love how the NY Times seems so old-fashioned and posh now, compared to any British newspaper you could mention. Here it is on the British press, the British snow, and a couple of shows currently on in London:
The local papers, with their usual love of understatement, are advertising the big freeze as life-threatening. (Temperatures are as low as in some parts of the Antarctic, they are fond of pointing out, though the snow has all but disappeared in central London, and the air feels almost mild to someone newly arrived from New York.) But both the Comedy Theater, home to Ms. Knightley in a modernized version of Molière’s “Misanthrope,” and the Menier, where Ms. Outhwaite has the title role in “Sweet Charity,” were packed with the dauntless.
Since the heating in London theaters in a cold wave is on a par with their air-conditioning in a heat wave, these audiences were unlikely to go home with warm hands. As for their hearts, well, Ms. Knightley, in an earnest West End debut, does inspire a certain parental warmth.
Ah, they’re so… genteel! (But I think that “parental warmth” thing is supposed to be more fatherly than motherly, you know.)
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