Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor slob gets sent to stay with his parents' old buddies, a retired half-English, half-Indian general and his alkie wife, residents of a mostly deserted colonial outpost. The main activity there consists of drinking and watching the jungle reclaim the cottages. Naturally, this, uh, bucolic setting provides time for a lot of introspection, which is what just about everybody does. All of the characters involved get their chance to spin out brief but revealing vignettes about their various problems--sexual, social, existential. Here Alter really struts his stuff; the excellent vignettes display versatility that a young novelist...
...Franklin McNulty, who was living on welfare in Oakland, Calif., won $128,410 in the Irish Sweepstakes. When he discovered that the Government expected to be paid about $35,000 in taxes on his winnings, he deposited his windfall in a bank on the island of Jersey in the English Channel. McNulty figured that money not brought into the U.S. could not be taxed...
...water, beer, soft drinks and cigarettes, and a thermos of hot water and a package of tea leaves. There are also small red ants in the bed, but they are not predatory. The Kweil-inese are trying, however. A paper strip across the toilet seat announces, in Chinese and English: DISINFECTED. There are two differently scented bars of soap, both pink; the toilet paper, also pink, is labeled (in English) Kapok, The Most Luxurious Toilet Tissue...
Death on the Nile, by this standard, is a good Christie movie. The film opens on the lush greens and browns of the sprawling English country estate of Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles), who agrees to do best friend Jackie (Mia Farrow) a favor by hiring her fiance as groundskeeper. Fiance (Simon MacCarkindale)--Cambridge-educated, handsome, but broke--shows up, and he and Linnet engage in heavy eye contact. Soon it's wedding bells, but not not Mia, who devotes herself to pursuing the lovebirds around the world and ruining their honeymoon. She pops up on top of a pyramid...
...bitchy companion (Maggie Smith) have set out for the same cruise, as have the novelist Salome Ottoban and her daughter. When Linnet's cheating lawyer (George Kennedy) hears of her marriage, his shady schemes are jeopardized and he sets off for Egypt to protect himself. Ridgeway's English lawyers are watching him, and they dispatch David Niven to the scene. Simultaneously, the Viennese doctor is trying to persuade Ridgeway not to go on trying to ruin his clinic, which has caused her friend to die, and the Marxist and Poirot are on the same boat. Small world...