Word: brits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with American football. A comfortingly familiar concert by the Band of the Grenadier Guards filled some of the pregame wait. Culture shock began in earnest with the arrival of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, who romped onto the field and high-kicked for the astonished audience. "What is this?" a Brit demanded, as he riffled furiously through his program book...
...romantic imperialist brooding over his sherry, the decorous Indians, with their subversive good manners, impressive intellectual tradition and caste system as rigid as their overlords', seemed perfect Asian ambassadors for all things English. The years have lent Indians and Pakistanis of old an ironic nobility; about them a Brit can feel at once guilty and nostalgic. Unless, of course, one has to deal with their sons and daughters on the streets of London. Now the Indo-Paks' manner is seen as rude and abrupt, their intellectual energy devoted to turning a quick quid, and in areas like South London there...
Incidentally, Dolby and the Clinton crew combine on a 12-incher entitled MAY THE CUBE BE WITH YOU, from Dolby's upcoming Brit-funk LP. The song reminds us that Dolby's mindless career since "Blinded Me With Science" can still be salvaged. He just took the wrong road when it diverged in the ol' yellow wood...
...where every black soul gleams like Bakelite. In the Rodeo Drive boutiques, Iranian thugs and their bimbos are served champagne and caviar. Diana's brother (Bruce McGill) dresses himself and his apartment in Elvis memorabilia and drives a white Caddy bearing the legend THE KING LIVES. A shabby-genteel Brit (David Bowie) eases his gun into Ed's mouth--in front of Tiffany--and purrs, "I like you, Ed." A rancid TV producer (Paul Mazursky) asks his girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold) to play kinky games with him: "Oblige me. I'm gonna put this on video...
...three musicians in the crowd are Bass Player Mark O'Toole, Drummer Peter ("Fed") Gill, both 20, and Lead Guitarist Brian ("Nasher") Nash, 21. Johnson, who is front man as well as vocalist, comes on as the archetypal Brit pop poofter, waving a salmon-colored silk scarf as he wafts his way through Springsteen's Born to Run. Boomed a member of the rehearsal audience at Frankie's Saturday Night Live appearance two weeks ago: "Bruce is better...