Word: blokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news: he is now, and for several months has been, a cuckold. A bit of rough weather, that. But as a British civil servant, Hedges takes a firm grip on his brolly and does the decent thing. Even after his wife divorces him and marries the other bloke, he still sends her birthday cards and occasionally advances the new couple a few quid to keep things going. People call him a chump, and Hedges is vaguely aware that they are right, but what can a man do when he lacks the "ability to loathe...
Actually, Percy (Harry H. Corbett) seems entirely believable as a Lancashire bloke of almost invincible rectitude. For 39 years he has been a virgin, and that is the crux of this lacklusty comedy adapted from a London and Broadway play. The boob and the bawd (Diane Cilento, the gamekeeper's daughter of Tom Jones) meet, maunder, tell one another pathetic little lies, and slowly uncover their loneliness...
...Horse racing's an opium dream beyond all dreams ever spun, Where every sad bloke in the mob should have won every race that was run. -Grantland Rice
...right. Her prowess in that and every other cause she espoused may be gauged by the reaction of another Tory backbencher when she walked into the House of Commons one day with a black eye suffered in a golfing accident. "My word, Nancy!" he marveled. "What must the other bloke be like...
...Bloke Modisane (South Africa...