Word: britishisms
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...Every Bond movie needs two Bond girls. One is a British operative (Gemma Arterton) named Miss Fields - in the credits she's ID'd as Strawberry Fields - and her job is to relieve Bond's sexual tension and add to the body count. The other is Camille, who has lost her mother and sister to one of the chief brigands. For Bond, then, she is both a mortal threat and an emotional tonic. Silently sulfurous with vengeance scenarios, she and Bond can purge their demons in the only acceptable action-movie fashion: by killing the men who were in some...
...1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred general elections until after the war. And when one was finally held, in 1945, the British people promptly voted Churchill out of office. We need not only great leaders but also a public great enough to accept their leadership. M.L. Cross, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS...
...reporting is to try to find resonances from other times and places to help anchor one’s journalism. So I have been alert for echoes from some of the more than two dozen elections I have covered around the world over the past twenty years with the British Broadcasting Company...
...doesn’t always work. In the British election of 1992, Neil Kinnock ran a similar campaign and lost narrowly to a post-Thatcher Conservative Party which had been in power for 13 years. John Major, who won, succeeded in distancing himself from Mrs. Thatcher, who by then had become unpopular both inside and outside her party, particularly over the issue of greater ties with Europe. Similarly, John McCain has attempted to move away from the Bush administration...
...amusing rap by longtime supporter Kanye West keep things modern. With the energy of these two tracks propelling it forward, the album moves from one enjoyable tune to the next and stays fresh with the injection of reggae flavor on “No Other Love” (featuring British diva Estelle of “American Boy” fame) and infectious bonus “Can’t Be My Lover.” Things slow down toward the second half with the excusable ballad “This Time”—a return...