Word: billye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BILLY LIAR. As hilariously mirrored by Actor Tom Courtenay, a young man's fancies turn to lust, liquor, fascism, bloody revenge, anything at all to escape the grime-and-grind of working-class life in modern Britain.
LOOKING FOR THE GENERAL, by Warren Miller. Billy Brown, alienated nuclear physicist, seeks redemption for a decadent world in the arrival of supermen from another planet. Of course, it doesn't turn out that way, but Billy's voice is satirically refreshing.
"I want to go full steam ahead until the old boiler bursts," says the Rev. E. Stanley Jones, whose fame overseas as an American evangelist is matched only by Billy Graham. Jones was formally retired by the Methodist Board of Missions in 1954, after 47 years of work -but retirement...
The superrace has even, upon occasion, secretly sent one of its number to earth. "She volunteered," explains one old man as he describes the Virgin Mary's role in the Nativity. "And we killed the boy! Killed the boy! Who could have saved us all. He was one of...
Filtered through the mad wit of Billy Brown, these grotesque gyrations sometimes threaten to spin out of control into pure centrifugal farce. But at his best Novelist Miller has come close to creating a comic epic celebrating the lunatic fringes of a genuine American phenomenon-a young nation's...