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Impossible to get there? The emblem on Legson's school uniform bore the words: I WILL TRY. When Legson was about 16 or 20-nobody really knows when he was born-he decided...
...bore down on him a little harder, and the driver jumped out one way and the truck went off the road and down a hillside the other...
...when the BBC had her singing to the tommies overseas, Petula (pronounced Peh-tyou-la) was doing reasonably well, until at 25 she hiply hopped across the Channel to record two songs in France. When the first was a big hit, she settled down, married a French recording executive, bore two children and became a smash...
Batetela, the leaflets bore a message from Mama Onema, a witch doctor formerly with the Simbas but now working for Tshombe. Mama Onema warned that the Simbas' dawa (magic) was no longer effective and urged the rebels to lay down their arms, for "otherwise, you will be cursed...
...nowadays is middleclass, industrial England: the rows on rows of red brick prison houses, the suffocating parochialism, the intellectual sterility, the emotional desiccation, the measuring out of life in tepid teacups, the apotheosis of fornication as the only salvation. The milieu has become predictable and precariously close to a bore. One knows not only what one will meet in such a house but who the residents will be. The father will be a petty tyrant who punctuates every sentence with the word bloody. The mother will be a crushed drab who never lets anyone forget the burdens she bears, flaying...