Word: britishism
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...Pierce’s home; as the Curator of Lepidoptera in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, Pierce’s job is to know moths and butterflies. Across the hall hangs an eBay triumph of which Berry is particularly proud: a framed letter written by British evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace, whose work preceded Darwin’s but has largely gone unnoticed...
Brand is also involved in comedy, performing stand-up sketches and writing books. Although he is decidedly British, Brand has found a niche in American pop culture...
...been observing you Americans on a Petri dish... There are some distinctions but I think that both countries are interested in manners and protocol. You know British people are thought of as being incredibly polite and it’s true. I suppose that you don’t have such a vindictive media. I think that there is social mobility, a spirit where achieving is a positive thing...
Produced a mere three years after the release of the 2007 British independent film of the same name, the movie is a case study of the absurd—it settles into a vein of ridiculous circumstances early on, and this proves to be the defining attribute of the film, from the opening scene to the end credits...
...movie also lacks creativity at almost every turn. Many of the movie’s scenes are very close in content and construction to the British version, and the score is unoriginal and bland...