Word: bashli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they would like to live like their betters-ride bikes, wear cloth caps, eat fish and chips, play the football pools, and watch the telly on a paid-up set. For those simple pleasures of the poor, sex and the bottle, they have the same words: they "have a bash...
...jolly good bash, in the best "sundowner" tradition. The big stone house on Kampala's Tank Hill swarmed with 180 laughing, hard-drinking whites clad in the most outlandish colonial costumes: solar topees and fly veils, pith helmets and mosquito boots. One girl came wrapped in a Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen...
...cast has already survived a boat's capsizing in Barcelona, a flood while on location in Toledo, and is getting ready for the big tent-fire scene at Madrid's Retire Park. So she heads for the Club de Campo with her 18-19 handicap to bash the pill around when she gets to relax. The flaming red hair is strawberry-blonde now, and her film role casts her as the mother of Claudia Cardinale. But the erstwhile Sadie Thompson still has the gams to make shorts worth wearing...
Conk, Kick, Bash. Brazil was already behind in the three-game series, having lost the first hard fought encounter, 2-4, to the Italians in Milan. But now Santos' eleven-man team was on national ground, and with Brazil's famed "twelfth man"-the crowd-at its back. "Goooooaaaaallllllllll!" howled the mob at each Santos goal; fireworks lit the sky and fans danced in the stands. No wonder that Santos, even playing without its injured superstar Pele (TIME, April 12), won the second game, 4-2, tying...
...APRIL IN PARIS BALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). From the Americana Hotel in Manhattan, a look at a high-society bash, with entertainment provided by Liza Minelli, Peter Duchin and Frank Sinatra...