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...Short List, the hero has declined from early literary promise into that well-padded asylum for mediocrity-BBC journalism. He decides to seduce Barbara Coles, a brilliant young stage designer. But it is a dreadful victory-an ego-shriveling comeuppance which Barbara achieves by 1) matching his rake's cold heart with cool and uncommitted bedroom expertise of her own, and 2) contemptuously letting him know that she considers him a vulgar interloper in her world of uncompromised talent...
...Knowing that I am an American, some of my African neighbors who have radios have just asked me to explain today's BBC news report of the murder of Negro children in Birmingham...
...Spender and C. Day Lewis, who stood traditional English verse on its ear by mixing slang and sardonic wit, toff talk and tough thinking to comment on England between the wars; of pneumonia; in London. During World War II, MacNeice drifted away from poetry to become one of the BBC's top scriptwriters and producers; but his early verse, which he enjoyed writing "as one enjoys swimming or swearing," had a jagged, sprightly charm, a cynically cheerful view of life...
...place and ask for floor space," she says. "A cupboard. Anything. God, it was awful, moving around with my little mat." She worked at odd, wearying places in the summer, such as a Schweppes factory ("Ugh"), where she grew to hate the taste of bitter lemon. Then BBC-TV picked her up for a science fiction serial called A Is for Andromeda. Movies have weaned her away from television. Her first two were unnoteworthy, but now, with Billy Liar, which last week seemed most likely to win the top award at the current Venice Film Festival, she is established...
...misfires. Spaniards laughed the peasant-garbed waiters at Madrid's Castellana Hilton right back into tie and tails, and Hilton had to change the name of the Opium Den bar in his Hong Kong hotel after the Chinese took offense (it is now simply The Den). The popular BBC television satire show, That Was the Week That Was, opened fire at Hilton with a mock Bible lesson: "Brethren, in the beginning there was darkness upon the face of the earth and there was no iced water. Then Hilton said: "Let the earth bring forth Hiltons yielding fruit after their...