Word: blokes
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Blake Jennelle ’04, a Crimson editor, is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. After convincing the Brits that his name is neither Blair nor Bloke, he hopes to dispel the myth that Jerry Springer reflects mainstream American life—although he may not be the best examp le.›
...have roots in Ireland, Italy, Malta, Morocco and, yes, Spain. But a stroll down Main Street shows that the biggest cultural influence has been Britain. Letters go into mailboxes - no, postboxes - marked with the Queen's monogram. Conversations, though in the vernacular Spanglish, are peppered with Briticisms like "bloke" and a car's "boot." And tea-time at the Rock Hotel means fresh scones and cucumber sandwiches with the crusts...
...exceeded his allotted time. When the program later aired on the BBC, the poetry recitation was cut. Learning of the slight at a postawards dinner, Crowe confronted the show's producer, Malcolm Gerrie, escorted him to a storage room and shoved him against a wall. Like the regular bloke he endlessly insists he is, Crowe offered his complaint in a plainspoken way, saying, "Who on earth had the [expletive] audacity to take out the Best Actor's poem?" Crowe later defended his actions but conceded he may have been too "passionate" in making his point...
...Then it all stopped. Today, there?s next to nothing. The Oscar nomination for "Moulin Rouge" is the exception that proves the rule (and that film was the inspiration of an Aussie bloke in love with a vanished movie form). One reason is that pop music, which once was known, accepted and shower-sung by everybody, was commandeered by rock ?n roll and became a niche market - a huge one, but still... - for kids. Rock and old-fashioned pop were mutually exclusive: the sort of song that would attract one part of the audience would invariably repel another...
...such a pounding that breakdowns are common. Stranded travelers are not strangers to these folk, but friends in need?though that tradition is gradually being eroded. "You've got to be careful," says Rodney, from the Anmatjere Aboriginal community, south of Barrow Creek. "We won't stop for a bloke with his hood up, no way. We'll stop if there's kids, but not otherwise...