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...feel my main reason for being here at Yale is to help Bri," Quirm continued, tying the laces of Dowling's white buck shoes. "He's so busy with his football that he has very little time to do the little things, like laying his clothes out before he goes to bed so he can put them on quickly in the morning. This is where I come...
...father, Bri (Albert Finney), has cauterized his pain by becoming a perpetual jester. He uses the child as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy through which to josh, mimic and needle his wife and the world. In a performance of sustained pyrotechnics, Finney does petrifyingly funny parodies of a Viennese neurologist who first assessed Joe's brain damage and of a pipe-sucking Anglican clergyman who is quite unstrung to hear God described as "a manic-depressive rugby footballer." To Joe Egg's mother, Sheila (Zena Walker), the child has become another pet to coddle along with...
...number of ways, Bri and Sheila are British cousins of Virginia Woolf's George and Martha. Like George, Bri is a teacher; like Martha, Sheila has been promiscuous and may still be. Along with an abrasively ironic war of words, both couples play games of cut-throat tomfoolery. At play's end, Bri tries to kill Joe-a child who is almost as mythical as the imaginary son in Woolf-and when that fails, he leaves his wife. An original in its own right, Joe Egg owes no dramatic debt to Albee's masterly play-yet both...
...Battle of Hastings 1066-Bottle of Guinness 1966," frothed a thousand billboards. "Whoosh! It's another big breakaway conquest," proclaimed the makers of Bri Nylon clothing in ads picturing mounted Bri Nyloned models setting forth against the Saxons; another version of the battle showed the Norman warriors armed with Desoutter Power Tools. Heinz offered its soup buyers a chance to enter an archery contest in which the first 1,066 winners would be rewarded with Kenwood Chef food mixers and Arrow shirts. And, in ads boosting its Neo-Medrone Acne Lotion, the Upjohn pharmaceutical company captioned a drawing...
...months to come. Whatever gains it may bring, the surcharge has already dimmed Britain's honor and prestige because it violates the country's trading treaties. Stunned by the tariff, which cuts their exports to Britain, officials of the six other EFTA nations revived the bitter chant: "Bri tannia waives the rules." Admits a British foreign officer: "We probably violated at least 18 international agreements with the surcharge...