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...greatest comic novel in the language into a gaudy, bawdy, bloody, beautiful and side-shatteringly funny farce, the best British movie since Olivier's Henry V. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear...
...play is set in a Dublin lodging house inhabited by two whores, two homosexuals, a caretaker, and an old Englishman named Monsewer who came to fight for Ireland's independence 45 years ago and has never given up the cause. A Russian sailor, two officers of the Irish Republican Army, a few Catholic social workers and a Negro pizefighter named Princess Grace also drift across the stage...
Modern rugby involves rules and terms far more complicated than the nineteenth century Englishman knew. The field itself is 75 yards wide and 150 yards long, almost twice the area of an American football gridiron. The two fields are laid out similarly except that the rugby goal posts are set right on the goal line...
Whenever an American housewife uses a detergent, an African woman buys a mammy cloth, or an Englishman pops into a fish-and-chips shop for a snack, the chances are good that the company that will profit is a corporate colossus called Unilever...
...guarded room at the hospital, Stephen Ward died at week's end without knowing that he had been convicted. A suicide note written four days earlier explained: "It's a wish not to let them get me. I'd rather get myself." Every Englishman had his own obituary for the man who was written off on the court docket as "defendant deceased." Stephen's friend "Bill," Viscount Astor, a somewhat belated witness of high estate, allowed piously: "His readiness to help anyone in pain is the memory many will treasure." In one way or another...