Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apartment of their own. Christina says that she will assume the quiet life of a Russian housewife and start a family. "I don't know why reporters want to find out something spectacular about Christina and me," says Sergei, who earns $120 weekly tutoring pupils in English. "We are just ordinary people." Perhaps so. But it remains to be seen how long Christina, who longs for some peace and quiet, will be able to stand all the peace and quiet she is likely to get during the long, cold Moscow winter...
...dreams of being a Pooh-Bah. Starting as "a coffee-colored coffee vendor," he manages to marry the boss's daughter (Marian Mercer), and with the quickest of strides reaches the top as a national and international business tycoon. Along the way he accumulates a bevy of English, Russian and German mistresses, all played with great comic zest by the selfsame Mercer. There is less sin than smirk in these accent-prone escapades...
Shedding almost all its English allusions, the show is thoroughly Amer- icanized and pervasively vulgar. Littlechap shoots for the presidency and makes it, the first Black ever to do so. Running for office on a ticket of doublespeak, Davis capitalizes on his command of antic mimicry. Donning shades, he struts his way toward the black vote. He woos the hispanics with hip-swiveling tangomania...
...English case involves three small, militantly leftist magazines held in contempt for printing the name of an Intelligence Officer. Called Colonel B in court, the officer had testified against two left-wing journalists charged under the British O.S.A. with receiving unauthorized information. Four members of Parliament later deliberately uttered his real name in a nationally broadcast debate. Radio commentators, fearing prosecution, were careful not to repeat the name. The magazines were hand-slapped with small fines (less than $1,000 each), and much of the press ridiculed the whole farce...
...large and talented. Thomas Hulce (the class "wimp"), Stephen Furst (the class "blimp"), James Daughton (a BMOC of ambiguous sexuality) and Karen Allen (as the sexiest of the animals' girls) are much more subtle performers than the material demands. Donald Sutherland, playing Faber's obligatory pot-smoking English prof, and Verna Bloom, as the dean's alcoholic wife, score some wicked points against the postgraduate generation...