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...former Prime Minister may also appeal to Zia for executive clemency. Domestic political considerations are likely to weigh more heavily than foreign opinion as Zia makes his final decision on whether or not to apply a stiff dose of Islamic justice and carry out his threat to "hang the blighter...
...decorated apartment in Liverpool) finds the greased-up Finney in the early sixties and on a rampage against the hypocrisy of working class morality--his own and that of his married drinking cronfies. The wedded worker's carnal ethic becomes rigid and depraved, Finney insists: rigid because after "a blighter shafts away until he accidentally shafts his way into marriage" his imposed sense of guilt keeps him from shafting on the side; depraved because the same man makes up for his nagging rigidity by "lusting his life away" with "dirty locker-room jokes" and blue-movies in the company...
London traffic seems to be where it's at these days. A bang and a tinkle in front of Harrods last week brought Salesman Patrick Ling charging out of his little Zephyr, "my mind full of evil thought," to deal with the blighter who'd bumped his bumper and smashed his tail light. The girl behind the wheel of the spiffy Reliant Scimitar just sat there, but her male companion suggested that Ling send the bill to Buckingham Palace, where the insurance would take care of it. The bird was Princess Anne, her companion a detective guardian. "What...
Bertie: I say, Jeeves, that blighter is at it again...
...fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play upon courses which seem to be suspended in mid-Atlantic, uncertain whether to nationalize in yesterday's Surrey or today's Eastern Seaboard. His people voice such dated Americanisms as "bozo" or "They said a mouthful." and also manage to class themselves...