Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy. But this time Britain's foot dragging threatened to block agreement on some of the most crucial problems to face the Community in recent years. Though an effort was being made to mute some of the quarrels for the present, diplomats predicted that a major clash across the English Channel could soon break into the open...
...first met Sergei Kauzov, 37, a slender, quiet man with thinning blond hair, a mouth glistening with gold teeth, and a glass eye that he now and then calmly removes and replaces in public. A graduate of a Moscow foreign-language institute, Kauzov is fluent in French and English as well as his native Russian. He had been sent to Paris as a representative of Sovfracht, the Soviet ship-chartering agency. There, say Onassis company sources, he met Christina over a business lunch at which she was initiating a deal to lease oil tankers to the Soviets. She drove Kauzov...
...hard to say what makes Clouseau so funny. He is supposed to be French, of course. Why, therefore, does he speak English with the strong Gallic accent of a man raised in Stuttgart? His colleagues and adversaries are French too, but they cannot figure out why Clouseau talks that way or, mostly, what he is talking about. "Leu and order," he says, meaning what he has sworn to uphold; every sentence contains a verbal banana peel...
...backdrop is Wales, with wild flowers in brilliant bloom. And in the foreground is another vision of natural beauty: Katharine Hepburn. If she looks a bit like some high-spirited English school mistress, that's because she is. On location for a television remake of Broadway's 1940 success, The Corn Is Green, Hepburn is cast as the indefatigable Miss Moffat, a sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine...
...me?for a lot of kids?it was a totally positive force . . . not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never?never ?about surrender." Like the people in his songs, Springsteen reaches high, always making the big grab but never loosing aim. When a visiting English journalist suggested to him a couple of weeks ago that he was trying to write "the great American novel on albums," Springsteen just grinned and replied, "The great American drive-in movie's more like...