Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of 3.9% unemployment, high by British standards. Housewives were worried that the Common Market's steep agricultural tariffs would send food prices soaring. British fishermen, distressed by rules that open the waters of one nation to the trawlers of all, recently held a sail-in off Brighton, displaying banners that read SAVE OUR SOLES...
...College, which is predominantly black. Both colleges were once officially segregated, and a special three-judge district court barred Eland's expansion on the grounds that it would undercut efforts to integrate Virginia State. The Supreme Court agreed. It also let stand a lower court ruling that forbade Brighton, Ala., to sell an abandoned junior high school building to a group intending to establish a whites-only private academy. The sale, the lower court said, would encourage racial discrimination...
...enormously suggestive remark like this one shows what we are missing. There are only isolated remarks about his great novels: this person turned up as so-and-so in Brighton Rock, that passage in The Power and the Glory seemed effective...
...women, children, old people), or at least valorous ones (police, prisoners of war). Unsafe assembly lines, malconstructed bleachers, badly-made cars can claim lives every day, though we'll hear little about it; but let some psychopath carve up a few nurses, or someone shoot a cop over in Brighton and we'll never hear the end of it. Journalism consists of the substitution of an event's dramatic elements for the event itself; newspapers and magazines are drama by other means. Let me entertain...
...sort of chap who, when revealed as a multiple killer, is described by his neighbors as "a quiet, unassuming man" and whose unbelieving mother invariably laments: "But he always kept his room so clean." Vic, in fact, takes good care of his mum, conveying her to the Brighton sun, faithfully carrying in the afternoon tea. Between such assignments, he coshes opponents and irritably castrates a chap or two. In films like this, of course, there is no such thing as the perfect criminal. Errors will be committed and no one ever eludes the British dragnet...