Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge and D'Best Furniture Store. Why? "It's classy," explains a Filipino. "It's French...
Town Cries. The admen did not have the occasion entirely to themselves. Every English town that could claim the remotest connection with either Harold or William beckoned tourists with such quaint attractions as Conquest puppet shows, town-crier contests and dancing on English Channel piers...
...tapestry is the property of the town of Bayeux in Normandy, which refused to give it up, and so Hastings had to produce its own. It came through beautifully. Now hanging in the Triodome is a tapestry 243 feet long, which portrays the past nine centuries of English history in 81 scenes covering 27 panels. "It is twelve feet longer than the Bayeux Tapestry," boasts a leading local booster, "and in much brighter colors...
...have given him wings.' And it's our pilot." Or trading stamps. It seems a girl friend saved 1,345 books of stamps toward an African safari. When she licked the last one, she got sick and died of glue poisoning. Or sex. "My husband is English, you see. He's terribly conservative. He wears pajamas with a vest. I give him a hug and a kiss and he says, 'Not here, not here.' Yesterday I started to give him a hug and a kiss and he said, 'Not here, not here...
...Theater to be doing this play, since the troupe specializes in turning dramatic gold into lead. Some new actors are present, notably Michael O'Sullivan, a mutilatingly funny man. They help to steal the show from Jonson, but pickpocketing a classic is the meanest form of tribute. Body English is slammed at the playgoer, but he never hears the king...