Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHISTLE IN THE DARK is Thomas Murphy's drama of a brutish Irishman and his four sons who move in on a fifth son who has tried to flee their world of tooth and claw by moving to England. The play is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace, stating truths about human nature that one would often rather forget...
...BOWDLER'S LEGACY: A HISTORY OF EXPURGATED BOOKS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, by Noel Perrin. Examining the literary atrocities of squeamish expurgators, the author has created a brilliant little work of cultural history full of wit and learning...
Coco also sets some sort of anticipation record, for Brisson has been laboring over this show for the past twelve years. "I'd been fascinated with Chanel since I was ten." Brisson says, "when I was at school in England. I was fascinated by this woman who cut her hair, smoked in public, wore pants." Brisson approached Lerner in 1960, but they did not start work together on Coco until 1965. By that time. Chanel had seen Lerner's My Fair Lady and loved it. "I was convinced that Lerner was incapable of doing anything vulgar," she said...
Students, teachers, England and the world have altered considerably in 35 years. But Brookfield School remains a tranquil antechamber to gentlemanhood, where the master now reigns in the person of Peter O'Toole. Discarding the shy, dry Donat approach, O'Toole becomes his own man, a conflicted figure changing imperceptibly from instructor to institution, like an elm turning, cell by cell, into petrified rock. The result is one of the slyest and subtlest performances in his career...
...sanitary conditions is statistically as safe as having one's tonsil's removed," writes Sikes. The operation, done correctly, usually takes about 15 to 20 minutes. The most common procedure (called a D and C-dilatation and curettage) removes the fetus by a simple scraping of the womb. In England, doctors use the newly developed vacuum aspirator, which pulls the fetus out like a vacuum cleaner. Both methods are effective until the woman is in her twelfth week of pregnancy...