Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barbara Mills Kleban was bora in England, attended Manchester University, and worked as a secretary before coming to the U.S. She was a researcher for Business for four years before becoming a reporter for that section...
...African. While fond and proud of his Nigerian heritage, he has small use for such concepts as "negritude." "Does a tiger feel his tigritude?" he asks. A member of the cultured and sophisticated Yoruba tribe, he was educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. He has worked for London's Royal Court Theater as playwright, actor and producer, and taught English literature at the University of Lagos...
...hippiedom as the social dawn of a New Jerusalem. A very pukka Sahib general (played with quaint and artful foxiness by Anthony Quayle) comes home from liquidating the white man's bumbling in Malaysia, only to find that his son and daughter have become neoprimitive natives of swinging England. His daughter (Margaret Linn) is complacently pregnant-by whom, she cannot be sure. His bearded guitar-laden son (Sam Waterston) looks "like a leftover from the Last Supper," and his so-called mistress is a breastless, hipless, bass-voiced androgyne. Ultimately, the general goes his filial foes one better...
Fanning out across England, a group of Mao-minded revolutionaries tries to seize control of the communication centers. When one of them invades a radio station, an obliging engineer advises that the first air time available is three weeks from Monday. Another rebel bursts into the House of Commons gallery, but his fiery oration is drowned out by a weary debate taking place on the floor. Finally, Prime Minister Harold Wilson gets wind of the revolution and goes...
...basic problem with the film is that the potentially high drama and black comedy are all too often reduced by Lester to a mere vaudeville of the absurd. At times, the kind of war it seems to be attacking is of the class variety. England's upper-crusty Sandhurst snobs are ceaselessly satirized by Crawford and by Michael Hordern as a blimpish colonel obsessed with "the wily Pathan," who claims to understand the working man. "I had a grandfather who was a miner," he muses, "until he sold it." The larger its targets, the more petty grows the film...