Word: britishers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope it may be our privilege before I too long to welcome an independent Zimbabwe to this assembly as a full member of the United Nations." That sentiment, expressed by British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington at the U.N. General Assembly last week, reflected the optimism emanating from the third round of London talks on the future of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. The reason: a dramatic exchange of major concessions seemed to have brought a new Zimbabwe constitution almost within reach...
...Rice-Lloyd Webber score is inferior to their work in Jesus Christ Super star. While ingratiatingly melodic for the most part, Lloyd Webber's tunes seem to have been composed by the British equivalent of ASCAP anonymous. Rice's lyrics too often rely on straw-clutching rhymes. The dying Eva plaintively asks, "What is the good of the strongest heart/ In a body that's falling apart...
...letter writers as unattractive and self-absorbed as possible. He is one of them, thus dryly joining the ranks of the fictitious who think themselves actual, and five of the others either figure in or are suggested by his earlier books. The seventh is Lady Amherst, a fiftyish British widow who has fetched up on the Eastern Shore as a visiting lecturer at a jerk water Maryland college. As the new girl in the book, she commands initial attention and then numbed disbelief. It is not just her Olympian long-windedness that is troubling, but the things she writes...
Stonehenge may be "not so much an observatory as a monument" marking where early British skygazers discovered the regularity of the sun's motion, Owen J. Gingerich, professor of Astronomy and the History of Science, said last night...
...characters (Eichhorn's parents, well acted by Rachel Roberts and Tony Melody). The remaining couples are superficially sketched and add little to the film except length. There are other excesses as well: a thrown-in sub plot about Redgrave's troubled young son, some muddled digressions about British-American cultural conflicts, and a grueling military race riot. Besides wasting time, these intrusions are pretentious; the director seems to be trying to convince himself that Yanks is something more than a tearjerker. In the process, he insults the audience. Director Schlesinger should not be ashamed to have made Yanks...