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(After Clive Ponting who leaked to the press details of the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser, General Belgrano.)
"Misbegotten," says Ben Brantley of the New York Times ; "Dead on delivery," agrees Clive Barnes of the New York Post . Based on Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Princess and the Pea," the production features Sarah Jessica Parker in the role that made Carol Burnett a star.
Up to half a million seals, most of them pups under a year old, were killed by commercial hunters in Canada last year (a key study by economist Clive Southey offered a lower figure--269,000--that has been contested).
With a well-paid civil service, Clive’s successors — Warren Hastings and Lord Cornwallis — avoided the collectors by padding their salaries with private deals.
I like the theory espoused in the 1960s by the British essayist Clive James.