Word: brits
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...Japan and not to the other co-host, South Korea. But to the Japanese, England plus soccer equals one thing: trouble. So the country is on full-scale alert for a hooligan invasion, especially when rivals Argentina and England face off in Sapporo on June 7. Hotels have established Brit-free zones to keep troublemakers away from everybody else. Merchants with shops near stadiums are boarding up their windows. Organizers will try to keep fans from different countries away from one another after games by posting exit signs leading in one direction in one language (say, English) and exit signs...
...Most Brit rock acts have become so consumed with burying their melodies that they forget to compose them. Thank you, Radiohead. Doves, a Manchester trio, is a pleasant exception, a band that actually enjoys its own tunefulness. Yes, there are echo effects, abrupt tempo changes and a few melancholy lyrics--how else would we know this is contemporary rock from England?--but songs such as There Goes the Fear, M62 Song and N.Y. reveal a sweet pop soul that is more Beatles than brooding...
Biggs is likable, if a little bland, as Benjamin. But he has to wade through Johnson's clumsy dialogue, which makes Benjamin's pre-Vietnam anomie far too explicit. ("Those people are grotesque," he complains of his parents' friends. "I want simple, honest people.") And maybe only a Brit could have envisioned Kathleen Turner, with her foghorn voice and faux Continental accent, as a bored Southern California housewife. Turner last played Tallulah Bankhead onstage, and doesn't seem to have paused for a cigarette in between. Her come-on to Benjamin is so overbearing and unsexy that...
...remain a favorite for years. Simple, emotional piano ballads, with a depth of feeling that is palpable, seem to flow naturally from the pen of this 23-year-old British ex-chef. He’s like a more emotional version of David Gray and the whole zoo of Brit-pop balladeers...
...wish-for comedy that starred Moore as the lovelorn nebbish and Cook as a mod-clad Satan. In 1969 Moore wrote and arranged the music for "30 is a Dangerous Age"; in 1972 Moore played the Dormouse - what else? - in a live-action "Alice in Wonderland" alongside established Brit stars Ralph Richardson, Michael Crawford and Peter Sellers...