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From the first scene in Part I, in which members of the audience are handed tasty scones, courtesy of the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin (and Crumpet) & Punctual Delivery Company, to the emotionally devastating finale of Part II, a riot of incident fills every corner of the stage. Dialogue scenes are intercut: one pair of actors converses, then falls silent as another, perhaps standing between them, provides exposition on the same subject. The actors coalesce to form an encroaching wall of bodies, the blinking façade of a rich man's house, a Hydrahead of starving Londoners, an aristocrat...
...first issue of the Star punched pretty hard, meaning that it was difficult to distinguish it from its rivals. The main selling point is a daily "Starbird," a full-page bare-breasted crumpet on page 7 (the Sun usually carries its cuties on page 3, the Mirror on page 5 or 7). The Star's top Stories: MODEL'S MYSTERY PLUNGE (she fell all of 12 ft. from the window of her lover's flat and broke her ankles), I WAS HIDING DRINK IN THE GROCERIES (a soccer player's drinking problem), BEAUTY AND THE PRIEST...
...least the G********* Department course had the sembalance of academic rigor. The Tea-and-Crumpet type of seminars don't. In these classes you receive lady fingers with your syllabus and scones with your exam questions. It's nice when an instructor believes that the members of a seminar should get to know one another outside of class, but during discussion it becomes difficult to take as serious criticisms offered by someone you've been talking out the past few weeks. When someone else accuses you of having racist attitudes or neanderthal political views, you feel like going over...
...obvious plonker," confesses the hero of All Neat in Black Stockings. "You know, someone who shares his crumpet with his mates." Indeed, Ginger (Victor Henry) and his best mate Dwyer (Jack Shepherd) have a smooth little system for sharing the wealth. They bring the birds back to their adjoining digs, dim the lights, then trade rooms and partners. It's not as cushy as the setup in Two Gentlemen Sharing, but it gets the job done. At least, until Ginger meets Jill, "the special one" (Susan George). "It's been over three weeks and she's still...
Decayed Likeness. Turner's romanticism was directed more at his art than his private life. A reclusive bachelor till his death in 1851, he was more a stodgy old crumpet than the philanderer who, several biographers have hinted, fathered five illegitimate children. Though fame attracted him, he dodged the patrician world of fox hunts and fancy clubs, ended up living in a dilapidated London town house, cluttered with what he called his "darlings"-his paintings-or in a little Thames-side refuge where he was thought by neighbors to be a certain Admiral Booth, husband of the landlady...