Word: cockneys
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...whether those systems are not perhaps products of human expression. On the evidence of Talking to Myself, Terkel has rarely sought out people who actually run things. An indefatigable romantic, he prefers the "mute, inglorious Miltons" among the underdogs: the Welsh miner with a taste for the impressionists, the Cockney waitress with a Bruegel print on her wall, the Swedish miner who quotes Gibbon. Terkel is moved by what he takes to be the oppression of such people. As he presents them, though, they seem to be doing very nicely indeed...
...Melvin Stewart, 49, an open-faced Mormon and former barber who was the nurse who tended Hughes' bedsores and took care of him. Beneath the easygoing manner of a small-town Utah boy, Stewart is keen and tough-minded. The other is Gordon Margulis, 45, a muscular, street-smart cockney who spent his early years in London's tough East End. In 1965 Margulis set out to visit his sister in New York City, then rambled throughout much of the country, ending up in Las Vegas. In need of work, he took a job as busboy at the Desert...
...with a much greater sense of what Shaw is about. Cynthia Cardon is just right as Prossy, Morell's secretary and admirer, snapping out her consonants, as Shaw once suggested she should, with a "ten pound gun hammer spring." Thomas Champion, as Burgess, Candida's father, has a laudable Cockney accent, and Mariani himself oozes idolatrous servility as the cleric Lexy. One of the most successful scenes in the production is the comic encounter between Prossy, Burgess and Marchbanks; in this run-in with characters who have the outlines of caricature, Marchbanks' own exaggerated mannerisms find their proper context...
...coupled with a standing policy-among members of the British Antique Dealers Association-to refund the price of any fake. Therefore, when the biggest art forgery scandal in years came to a head in London last fortnight, the embarrassment was acute. At a press conference, a rubicund, white-bearded cockney painter and restorer named Tom Keating, 59, revealed that over the past 25 years he had flooded the art market with anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 pastiches of the work of dead artists, ranging from 17th century Dutch to Constable to German expressionists. He was, Keating blithely admitted...
Parker, a scrambler with strong currents of cockney in his speech, started out in the mail room of a London ad agency and within seven years was the head of his own flourishing production company. His specialty was commercials that recalled old movies. One showed a freshly forlorn figure at a railway station, trudging through clouds of locomotive steam, accompanied by the Rachmaninoff theme from Brief Encounter and making his melancholy way home to break open a Birds Eye Frozen Dinner for One. Parker made over 600 commercials in less than six years, hankering all the while to do something...