Word: blimpishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedy are all too often reduced by Lester to a mere vaudeville of the absurd. At times, the kind of war it seems to be attacking is of the class variety. England's upper-crusty Sandhurst snobs are ceaselessly satirized by Crawford and by Michael Hordern as a blimpish colonel obsessed with "the wily Pathan," who claims to understand the working man. "I had a grandfather who was a miner," he muses, "until he sold it." The larger its targets, the more petty grows the film. In deliberately choosing to caricature one of the most justifiable conflicts of Western...
...into orbit was nicknamed Astérix. This year, French children are asking Père Noël for the Astérix costumes, dolls and masks that are being sold all over the country. Huge papier-mâché models of the little warrior and his blimpish, pigtailed companion Obélix stare down from Christmas displays in department stores. More than 3,600,000 copies of eight hard-cover Astérix comic books have been sold, and several American publishers have proposed an English-language translation for the U.S. Cafés even stock...
...Hawaii, Murphy is considered a rather mysterious personage. He lives austerely: once a blimpish...
...Blimpish Bark. Last week the Union debated the same resolution (now, of course, "for Queen and Country"), and the storm was almost as violent. The man responsible was Tariq Ali, 21, a publicity-happy Pakistani studying at Oxford's Exeter College, who as president of the Union selects the topic of its weekly debates. His choice won him threats from Britain's fledgling Ku Klux Klan ("Watch out, you dirty wog"), four television appearances (worth $56), and 18 newspaper interviews. Letters poured in to editors, who responded with crisp editorials, and the BBC said it would televise...
...take credit for a predicted economic spurt this summer. He is also happily married, a particularly useful qualification right now. Next are Deputy Prime Minister "Rab" Butler (2-1), who has all the necessary experience, but at 60 may have been around too long; and Lord Hailsham, bellicose, blimpish Science Minister, 55, whose hopes faded rapidly when the government said that its lords reform bill, which would permit him to sit in the Commons, would not be introduced this summer. Ted Heath, 46, is generally ruled out because he is associated with the Common Market failure, and besides...