Word: brits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, an unidentified caller left a message on my answering machine (or "answerphone" in Brit-speak). The voice sounded vaguely familiar, and I soon realized that the phone number matched the number of a flat I'd visited several days before: it was Mike from Bayswater. A lively area in central London, full of shops, pubs, restaurants and tourists, Bayswater is perhaps best known as neighbor to Notting Hill. In other words, this flat was in a desirable location. Location, it turned out, was just about the only thing the flat had going...
...locker room of the club, one might just run into another remnant from that same period of antiquity in the news business. Furry, flabby and foul-mouthed, a dislocated Brit turned foreign correspondent tells an intern about reporting, as he knows it. "Thay're in jayill naow, the fahks." For the old hack, possessed of a cockney so thick it sounds Australian and a mouth as foul as Sammy Sosa's late swing, the march of history is not poignant--it is a hard blow to the gut. He speaks of the former owners of United Press International, scoundrels whose...
TONY BLAIR Brit P.M. loses big at Euro polls; good war didn't help. Bush Sr. could have told him that
...flat-out comedies, movement means the rapid flapping of a wise mouth. Cartman and his smartass school chums will try talking their way back into the pop zeitgeist with the feature cartoon South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. In Mickey Blue Eyes, Brit blueblood Hugh Grant plans to marry into a Mafia family and has to pass himself off as a Brooklyn gangster. Detroit Rock City, set in 1978, is about four guys trying to bluff their way into a KISS concert. It may remind you of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, made in 1978, about a bunch of kids...
...amateur hockey team, he heard Dusty Springfield cooing The Look of Love on NPR, and images swirled in his mind: fuzzy memories of free love and Nehru jackets, trashy movies like Casino Royale and Our Man Flint. While soaking in Epsom salts that evening, he started spouting randy Brit-speak to his wife Robin Ruzan in what he calls "that well-traveled, jet-setty Englishman voice." She suggested he write up the character. Within three weeks there was a first-draft screenplay. A toothy icon was born...