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...like something out of Nineteen Eighty-Four: "It's very strange to be taken through unfinished corridors to a barren room furnished with three cots, a chest, a table and some chairs, a telly and then, after looking through an uncurtained window and seeing a weird townscape, having a bloke in a German army uniform tell me: 'Velcome to der Olympic Village.' This is supposed to be a village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Playground (or Fun | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...long run, Davis knows that his plans hinge on musical successes-like Figaro-rather than his charisma. "I'm not the maestro type, throwing scores at people or eating the telephone," he says. "I'm a perfectly ordinary bloke who happens to be musical director of the Royal Opera. Of course, I have to play the role of the chap who is never flustered, always self-confident. But when I wake up in the night I find there are pieces of my fingers all over the pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: An Ordinary Bloke | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...Hotel Byblos there, and yes, "Bianca and I have been together for several weeks. But I have no plans to marry." Still, 21-year-old Bianca Perez Morena de Macias of Nicaragua went on smiling, and Mick added cryptically: "I'm not the sort of bloke who would make a big fuss of announcing a date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 3, 1971 | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...garbage cans is "accompanied by the jovial dustman's monotonous refrain O Come, All Ye Faithful." After reading that, the Cambridge Urban District Council promptly rerouted Dustman Frank Clarke so that he appeared under the prince's windows at 9 a.m. rather than 7. "I am a bloke who likes to sing at his work," admitted Clarke. "But I think 7 o'clock is time enough for anyone to be up and on parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 22, 1968 | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...identify U Thant. Only 58% of the chaps in the street could place U Thant correctly as U.N. Secretary-General. Ah well, he still made out better than Svet-Icma Alliluyeva, who was identified by 51% as Franco's daughter, Khrushchev's daughter, or "the religious bloke with the Beatles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 29, 1967 | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

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