Word: burgesses
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...hiking in Nepal or holding regular summer jobs, Brooke spent four weeks on location in Nassau for a made-for-TV movie called Wet Gold. She plays a waitress who goes on a treasure hunt with her boyfriend, a scuba diver and the salty survivor of a sunken ship (Burgess Meredith, 75). The two younger men fight over Brooke and of course everybody rights over the gold. "She's quite a girl," says Meredith of his coed costar. "She has no movements or moods that are not lovely...
...decade after the Great War, the playing fields of Eton and Westminster were trod by a generation of upper-class traitors to the Empire: Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and the rest. In the 1980s, these homegrown spies have stoked a boomlet of plays, TV shows and films. Julian Mitchell's 1981 play, Another Country, is set in a public school very much like Eton and features a 17-year-old, Guy Bennett, very much like the young Guy Burgess. Prinked up in Oscar Wilde frippery, gaily mocking the prefects' hypocritical rites of passage, standing defiantly outside this class...
...English. Commencement speakers, an unprecedented number of whom were women, reflected the notable diversity of the graduates and ranged widely over topics from the dangers of nuclear war to the merits of wandering. Nor did the speakers neglect some themes that spring eternal. At Middlebury College in Vermont, Actor Burgess Meredith urged: "Make love! Propagate!" A commencement sampler...
...English poet FX. Enderby, aging, dyspeptic, chronically unfulfilled and disaster prone, is a character so alive that not even his creator could kill him off. Starting in 1963, he has made his disorderly way through three previous Burgess novels (Inside Mr. Enderby; Enderby Outside; The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End), emerging from the lavatory where he writes his unappreciated poems to suffer such indignities as a bad marriage, scandal, a breakdown and success as a screenwriter...
...finale of Clockwork Testament (1975), Visiting Professor Enderby succumbed to a weak heart and culture shock on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Yet now ("to placate kind readers" who objected, Burgess maintains in a sub-subtitle) he pops up again...