Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Malibu's middle-aged gentry may be excused for labeling this young Englishman an eccentric. Lifetime subscribers to Sunset magazine cannot conceive of anyone placing a tangerine pool table around the corner from a mirrored King Henry VIII fourposter. Bergère ottomans never should be buffeted by the whizap of a Death-Race Videogame. But when one has money, things bizarre are described, politely, as eclectic. Says Moon: "It's just a quiet place to escape the madness, a little English manor house with modern conveniences...
...location in the Virgin Islands for the filming of H.G. Wells' 1896 science-fiction chiller, The Island of Dr. Moreau. Carrera plays a prostitute shanghaied from Panama to Moreau's Pacific island for his grisly experiments in trans-species engineering. Michael York co-stars as a shipwrecked Englishman who also gets entangled in the mad scientist's endeavors. To provide raw materials for Vivisectionist Moreau (played by Burt Lancaster), the film makers imported a small-scale Noah's ark of creatures. So far, actors and animals are getting along famously. In fact, whenever the cast takes...
...game, but to play it entertainingly requires Amis' sure historical anchor and free-floating imagination. He sets young Hubert's struggle to stay unmutilated against a background of intriguing conjectures and sly jokes. Europe is ruled directly from the Vatican (Pope John XXIV is a stout-swilling Englishman given to reminding his visitors that "we are the Holy Father"). Plague and cholera still ravage its citizens because ecclesiastical authorities have hamstrung medicine and banned science altogether. Jean-Paul Sartre is a French Jesuit. Children read books like St. Lemuel's Travels and "a collection of Father Bond...
...Dostoyevsky were reincarnated as an Englishman, he might write novels like Piers Paul Read. His books are packed with demons perceived as the rattling of a vicar's teacups, clubrooms full of failed saints and even failed sinners, all wearing the old school tie. In short, crime and, above all, punishment during a weekend on a Cornwall estate...
...skidding end to the most dramatic racing duel in recent memory. Lauda is a methodical Austrian whose technical brilliance and unflappable personality had brought stability-and a championship-back to Ferrari after a decade of decline. Hunt is the dashing Englishman who brought the verve of a swashbuckler to staid Team McLaren. Roundhead and Cavalier, a rivalry that seemed fated...