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Scudder appears not a moment too soon, but still rather too late to rescue a movie in which Maurice and his great love, Clive (Hugh Grant), spend unconscionable amounts of screen time chastely twittering over their Cambridge teacups about the Platonic ideal of male love. Scudder also arrives on this pristine scene long after Maurice himself has dithered to death the matter of physically consummating his natural impulses...
...been a fixture in gospel and pop for three decades. Dionne Warwick, who crafted a unique pop style before Whitney was born, is her cousin. Aretha Franklin, the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is known as "Auntie Ree" around the Houston home. Clive Davis, the industry swami who revived Dionne's and Aretha's fortunes when he signed them for his Arista Records, spent two years preparing each of Whitney's albums...
...Clive Davis was ready for Whitney. Earlier, he had helped launch the careers of Janis Joplin, Barry Manilow and Billy Joel. Now he would steer Whitney Houston to middle-of-the-road music. Gerry Griffith, then Arista's A.- and-R. chief, had recommended Whitney to Davis and set up an audition. "Clive sat there poker-faced," recalls Flics. "He said thank you and left. The next day we got an enthusiastic offer." In 1983 Arista signed her, with a "key man" clause: if Davis leaves the company, Whitney can go with...
Most surprised and elated of all by the election results were the leaders of the Conservative Party. The Johannesburg regional chairman, Clive Derby- Lewis, said the party would now demand that the government enforce racial segregation in housing and reinstate the pass laws that restricted the migration of blacks to cities. Those laws, which are deeply hated by South African blacks, were repealed a year ago. Conservative Party Leader Andries Treurnicht declared that the election results "put us in a strong position for challenging the government on reform." With the Conservatives making such demands in their new role...
...most durable form of English hostility came not from the Royal Academy, whose fogies died off, but from the enlightened purlieus of Bloomsbury, where the critic Roger Fry, who had organized the first postimpressionist show at the Grafton Galleries in 1910, and his truculent fugleman Clive Bell, inventor of the catch-phrase "significant form," made it just fine to despise new English art in the name of the French avant-garde. Given their belief in an imperial France whose seigneurs were Cezanne, Matisse and Gaugin, Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything...