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Despite the constantly changing backdrop, the themes strongly resemble one another. Melville concentrates on the problems faced by West Indians in the West Indies, Englishmen in the West Indies or West Indians in England. The stories aim to investigate the heritage of colonialism...
...Reagan's economic follies, America sinks and Japan rises. In this context it is fatuous to utter bromides about art's being the Common Property of Mankind. Americans now begin to view the outflow of their own art with bemused alarm -- just as Italians and Englishmen, at the turn of the century, watched the Titians, Sassettas and Turners, pried loose from palazzo and stately home by the teamwork of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen, disappearing into American museums. "The Japanese are awash in money," says New York's leading dealer in old-master drawings, David Tunick. "And when something really...
...career was long. Not many Englishmen of his day lived to push 80. Born in 1573, he grew up in Elizabethan England, collaborated on masques with Ben Jonson and probably knew Shakespeare. He lived on into the time of Cromwell and died in 1652. He cannot have been wholly sorry to leave a world that had killed his King and friend, Charles...
...midfielder in high school, Bonnie took one look at the speed and skill of the Crimson midfield--which at that time boasted talented Englishmen Paul Nicholas and Nick Hotchkin--and knew he'd have to take on a new position at Harvard...
These are no ordinary immigrants to sunbaked Florida. They are top tabloid journalists from Fleet Street -- most of them Englishmen, Scots, Australians and Canadians -- lured to the U.S. by the inflated salaries at the Lantana- . based National Enquirer. (Starting pay for a reporter: $50,000 a year, with no experience required, except an apparent aptitude for spying on the celebrity species.) The Fleet Streeters began arriving in droves during the 1970s, enough of them to field cricket games, fill dart rooms and prompt some local eateries to include bangers and mash on their menus. Their presence in turn encouraged other...