Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post provides an ideal academic environment for the scholar, who has in the past taught courses on the literature of California and the literature of the American west. Handley, who was on leave during the fall term, currently teachesan undergraduate seminar on British authorVirginia Wolff...
...somewhat old-fashioned romantic adventure Charlotte Gray (Random House; 399 pages; $24.95), novelist Sebastian Faulks makes a promise that somewhat old-fashioned readers expect and understand. The brief opening scene takes a Spitfire pilot over Nazi-occupied France on a lone mission and brings him back to his British home field, his fragile plane's tail controls damaged by antiaircraft fire. He makes a ragged landing and climbs out of the cockpit, shaking. A mechanic asks, "How was it, Greg?" He answers, "It was cold...
...tunesmiths that made stars of the Backstreet Boys. Swedish producer Max Martin, who has also worked with Ace of Base, came in to write Spears' signature song. American Eric Foster White, who produces Boyzone and Hi-Five, wrote three of Spears' catchiest tunes, including the frothy Soda Pop. British director Nigel Dick, who shot the Backstreet Boys' video As Long as You Love Me, was hired to add what he describes as "fun, life, color, energy and a bit of sex, I suppose...
...reached LUCIANA MORAD, whose pregnant glow was evident on far more than her face last week during Carnaval. The Brazilian model, perhaps better known as the woman rumored to be carrying another heir for Mick Jagger, made a spirited appearance on a float, shimmying and waving enthusiastically at fans. British papers have reported that Jagger, 55, has offered Morad, 29, a tidy sum to refuse interviews. But apparently he never said anything about semiclad public appearances. Hey, when you hail from the country that invented the thong, immodesty is your birthright...
Former Quincy House resident Sharmila Sen '92,now a Ph.D. candidate at Yale, will focus onpost-colonial literature and English literature ofthe non-British and American worlds...