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Britain's Michael Moorcock is both bizarrely inventive and highly disciplined as he rockets from blood-and-thunder histrionics to wry social satire in his latest fantasy, Breakfast in the Ruins. In it, Karl Glogauer, a young Englishman, swaps physical and mental identities with a strange African with whom he has a homosexual encounter...
...made Burn! in 1970, five years after making Battle of Algiers, and although this latter fictional account of 19th century colonialism is a different sort of film than the realistic 1965 classic, it exhibits signs of the same intelligence and the same cinemagraphic beauty. Marlon Brando stars as an Englishman who inspires revolution in a Carribean Portuguese colony in order to open up the island to British trade. The film is hardly doctrinaire, but it does take a few clean and effective swipes at capitalist-based liberals. This isn't great movie, but it is a damned good one. Playing...
...Englishman who happened to be caught up in the crowd and whizzed off to one of the stadia, there was the bittersweet sensation of seeming to hear, sung by millions, a song he had composed himself and for which he was getting no royalties. Not that England ever forced football on anyone except savages who had to be weaned from bloodier sports: the game has sold itself to civilized countries as effectively as whisky or Coca-Cola. Indeed football is the only international language, apart from...
...year's Wimbledon boycott--but the one thing he just can't take is bird whistles immediately preceding his serve. While he hasn't gone into the stands to attack a fan yet, like Jimmy Connors did at one Baltimore Banners match the pale, finely-chiseled features of the Englishman go patch-pink when he gets hot or bothered, lots of bright red blotches of troubled blood...
...Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, accompanying another episode of The Green Hornet. Once more The Shadow purrs, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" Sergeant Preston of the Yukon hustles his huskies, Our Gal Sunday strives to find happiness with a wealthy, titled Englishman, and 15-year-old Speed Gibson of the International Police doggedly pursues his archfoe, The Octopus...