Word: burgess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Assault of the Killer Bimbos, Space Sluts in the Slammer and Surf Nazis Must Die. You could catch Jean-Luc Godard in a typically impish auto-da-fe. This year the Peter Pan of enfants terribles presented a captious, grating version of King Lear, starring both Norman Mailer and Burgess Meredith as Lear and Molly Ringwald as Cordelia. Godard, who later boasted that he had never read the play, seemed determined to accomplish what the banks and an indifferent movie public have not quite yet achieved: to bankrupt the Cannon Group, his sponsoring studio...
Many executives oppose the commissioner's involvement in rate setting. But John Hancock Lobbyist Barbara Burgess supports Hiam. Says she: "Current rates discriminate against the individual...
...enough. Micaela -- a character not found in Merimee's gritty original novella -- was her conventional, boring bourgeois self, and the reserved British performers did not really get the sleaze factor right. This should have been Carmen: Beyond Thunderdome. Still, it boasted a brilliant performance by Mezzo Sally Burgess in the title role and some crisp conducting from Paul Daniel...
...answer is three, then the scene of American music right now is Chicago. The exploits of two groups from the Windy City, Big Black and Naked Raygun, have been chronicled in these and other pages. And now, under the tutelage of Big Black's producer Ian Burgess, Breaking Circus joins the aforementioned to form a genuine, scene-making triumvirate...
...Burgess's story matters because he survived to become one of England's most important postwar novelists. It entertains because it is crammed with odd, intriguing information: recipes for old-fashioned Lancashire dishes, Malayan expressions for a variety of sexual acts, the crotchety digressions of an inexhaustibly curious mind. "I suppose," Burgess writes, "that a novelist who produces an autobiography has a right to expect that most of its readers will also be readers of his fiction." In this case, he is wrong. People who have never heard of Anthony Burgess, much less John Burgess Wilson, can easily find this...