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...that Europeans accept tax bites that would numb Americans. Though partly warped by differences in purchasing power, some comparisons are enlightening. An unmarried German worker earning $5,000 a year pays about $1,500 in income and social taxes; a single American earning about the same pays $800. An Englishman who is married, has two children and earns $12,000 a year has income taxes of $3,257. An American in the same category pays $2,154. Europeans also pay savage excise levies: 400 on a gallon of gasoline in Germany v. about 120 in the U.S. The English...
Sally's antic and readily available charms are sampled by a young Englishman called Brian Roberts (Michael York), who is in Berlin to study for a doctorate in philosophy. What he gets instead is a seminar in lowlife and a confrontation with his own repressed homosexuality. His tutor in the latter is a baron named Max (Helmut Griem), who has also passed a few nights with Sally. "Screw Max!" exclaims an exas perated Brian one day. "I do," replies Sally. "So," says Brian, "do I." This complicates matters, since Sally and Brian are in love and Sally is pregnant...
...Englishman, he is expected by the Cosmos to sign a pre contract with the team because, as they said, "he is married to an American girl and we are sure he will stay here...
David Niven is the great joke Englishman of his generation. Dependable, diffident and apparently dim, he wanders on to the screen like a mildly rattled rabbit, occasionally splutters, "I say, jolly good, what?" and hardly ever gets the girl. Niven has played this P.O. Wodehouse stereotype with such consistent charm that audiences usually assume that Niven is like that too. Not at all. In The Moon's a Balloon, his racy autobiography, Niven offers himself as a tough, ambitious international playboy-a well-preserved specimen of that almost extinct species, the gilded barfly...
...narrative's focus. His hero, a rich pram manufacturer who discovers Life, sometimes wambles about in the state of blithering idiocy invented by Evelyn Waugh to let the air out of the upper middle class and reproduced more easily and less funnily since then by each successive Englishman to write a light novel...