Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last ten years of his life he was a flabby old Blimp with brandy jowls and a menacing pewter complexion. Plagued by insomnia and stunned by sedatives, he suffered intermittent hallucinations, persecuting voices, recurrent depressions. About a year ago he gave up writing almost entirely. And then last week on Easter Sunday, home from a Mass sung (to his crusty satisfaction) in Latin, he climbed the stairs to his study and died of a heart attack. His novels survive and will continue to survive as long as there are readers who can savor what Critic V. S. Pritchett calls...
...York Times composed a reverent fanfare of farewell: "None who held high command will be so long remembered in the English-speaking world." Yet less than 30 years later, the object of this adulation is remembered only vaguely as a World War I Blimp attached by chance to a much more colorful and important object: Lawrence of Arabia. Such an impression, says Historian Brian Gardner (The Year That Changed the World: 1945), is ludicrously inadequate. In this sound and vigorous biography, he demonstrates that Allenby was a grand personality and a great general who executed an outstanding military masterpiece...
...gallons of hydrogen-far more than contained in the famous blimp Von Hindenberg-exploded, the force of the blast would have been much more powerful...
...Terry-Thomas. Though after 30 films he has virtually monopolized the comic English codger role and added his own lunatic stripe to the Old School Tie, it is often hard to tell whether he is spoofing the upper-crust Briton or simply being one. On his travels, like any Blimp setting off on safari, he packs his portmanteaus with sartorial accouterments for every conceivable occasion: white flannels for tennis, plus fours for golf, blazer for cricket, bowler, boater and deerstalker, tweeds, pinstripes, tails. Everything but the old elephant gun. He claims that he needs all those togs for professional...
...this time, and that means plenty is going to happen, none of it original. The characters, except for a regulation Blimp (Stewart Granger), are stir-type stereotypes: a bomb-tossing boyo (Mickey Rooney) from the I.R.A., a Little Caesar (Raf Vallone) with eyes that smoke like gun barrels, a twitchy-faced psychopath (Henry Silva) so hipped on homicide that he murders babies when he runs out of adults. What's more, the plot is a weary old war horse: the villainous heroes, who fight at the start to save their own skins, fight to the finish to save...