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LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Love is literally blind in this black comedy about a wealthy Englishman (Nicol Williamson) who becomes obsessed with a lascivious movie usherette (Anna Karina). Williamson gives a strong performance as a weak man. The script-from Vladimir Nabokov's novel-is intelligent, and Tony Richardson's direction is undoubtedly his best since The Entertainer...
...idle boast, but now David Renwick, 32, is anything but idle. An artsy-craftsy Englishman who set up shop near Sheffield four years ago to practice the dying art of hand-forging iron, he whimsically wrote to an American pal: "I can make anything from lamps to chastity belts." The pal promptly responded with an order for a hand-forged chastity belt from an anonymous Texan. Well, why not? Renwick found a design in a public library, forged a replica-and immediately received orders for 40 more...
...members are not supposed to make serious speeches their first day in Parliament, but in an assembly captivated by her before she ever opened her mouth, no rules applied. Her small peat-bog Irish voice twanged through the great hall as she tartly announced: "There never was born an Englishman who understands the Irish people." She had come, she said, to speak for the poor people, Protestant as well as Catholic, all oppressed by "the society of landlords who, by ancient charter of Charles II, still hold the rights of the ordinary people of Northern Ireland over such things...
Venice rotted and went stormy with the end of summer. The last days were bittersweet like the cigarette of a man about to die. Champagne at dawn and sleep through the day. The most proper Englishman of all, burdened by a suspicion of having danced nude at breakfast, did not show himself again. Not many of us said good-bye. There was too much "see you around" in that...
...their sexual decline at roughly the same time, when he was 70 and she was 50. But what do philosophers know anyway? In fact, a woman's sexual desire may continue for years after menopause. In men, the desire may thrive until an extraordinary age. In 1583, an Englishman named Thomas Parr was found guilty of committing adultery at the age of 100 and did penance, according to the custom of the time, by wearing a white sheet at the door of the church. Legend has it that Parr remarried at the age of 120 and had children...