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Idle's dialogue and Neil Innes' song parodies are full of idle wordplay and bereft of sting. Much of the time Idle does not even seem particularly interested in satirizing the Beatles or their fans; he launches instead into banal gibes aimed at documentary film makers. As satirical targets go, documentary film makers are only slightly more hilarious than, say, stamp collectors or locksmiths...
...what Hamlet studied at Wittenberg. But given its woolgathering premise, Heathcliff is a remarkably accomplished and engrossing novel. It is also a first-rate act of literary impersonation. Caine introduces convincing versions of Lockwood and Nelly Dean and, at some risk, a long autobiographical letter written by Heathcliff himself. Bereft because he knows Catherine will never marry him, the ferocious young man flees the Heights with a vague plan to wreak vengeance on the world. No sooner does he reach London than he joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury Square. The work invigorates him: "I longed to cross...
...export three-fourths of their production, are reduced to hoping that they can close the year with no more than a 20% drop in exports from 1976. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has fumed privately to friends that in letting the dollar fall Washington has shown itself to be bereft of "the slightest economic sense." Switzerland's Weltwoche magazine complains: "Using the dollar weapon, America is waging a real trade war, a war against its friends." If the slide continues, it could also spur OPEC, which receives the bulk of its revenues in dollars, to seek another price hike...
...prostitutes live at home and turn tricks merely for pocket money. But most are runaways. Typically, they are the products of broken homes and brutality, often inflicted by alcoholic or drug-addicted parents. They take to the streets, use their bodies for survival and then, beaten by pimps and bereft of selfesteem, live in fear of reprisal if they attempt to escape the racket...
Despite all its economic attractions, life in Ireland remains lonely and provincial, virtually bereft of the intellectual stimulation that goads most novelists and playwrights. Thus British Novelist Len Deighton (The Ipcress File; Billion Dollar Brain) maintains a residence in Ireland solely for tax purposes but spends most of his time in Portugal...