Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before breakfast, then they may go surf casting for an hour. After another hour of tennis at Rose Kennedy's house, Ted visits with his mother, often taking her for a short walk along the beach. On Sundays, though not deeply religious, he usually attends Mass. The Rev. James English, Kennedy's pastor in Washington, describes him as "a believer who does his best to live his life as a Roman Catholic...
...recent years it has become almost an oral tradition for clerks to poke fun at Burger as a vain and pompous man who likes French wine, as well as all things English, particularly English barristers, whom he considers to be more "civilized" than American lawyers. On occasion, he has been preceded by a messenger who gravely announced to startled clerks, "Gentlemen, the Chief Justice of the United States." Paranoid about press leaks, he opposed Rehnquist's suggestion for a weekly tea with clerks because he thought it a security risk. The court's press officer, Barrett McGurn, regularly...
...this new film, there is no digression into the sexual enticements of Salome, no subplot on Barabbas, and no theorizing about the motives of Judas as in Franco Zeffirelli's TV Jesus of Nazareth. On the other hand, there is almost no character development, although Brian Deacon, an English actor, manages to portray a Christ who is much less mystical and more appealing than most of the previous celluloid renderings...
...shipment of 200 tons of uranium. The heist was not confirmed until 1977, when it was generally assumed that the Israelis had latched onto the ore, enough to make 30 bombs at their atomic reactor in the Negev. This insubstantial news snippet was seized upon by bestselling English Novelist Ken Follett (Eye of the Needle), who has processed it into one of the liveliest thrillers of the year...
...start wondering what has happened to Stoppard's proverbial cleverness. In Jumpers he used stage acrobatics to poke fun at and illuminate complicated philosophical questions; here he finds no better use for age-old sight gags than to keep his audience interested between long recitations of names of English inns...