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...young American journalist working in London, I disagree with your contention [Nov. 1] that "young Englishmen seem to surpass" their American counterparts in the ability to write vividly. No reflection on the Sunday Times staffers, but I suspect there would be more young Americans writing just as vividly if there were more American organizations as willing to spend nine months and $60,000 on one series...
...editors and 30 reporters, mostly in their 20s. Says former "Insight" Editor Bruce Page: "We use absolutely standard reporting practices. We talk to people, write it down, check it back. We have no new gimmicks." What they do have is the ability to write vividly-young Englishmen seem to surpass their American counterparts in this respect-and the sort of franchise that a team of hard-digging reporters needs most...
...forced to stand in for "the greatest story ever told." It does not pretend to span the enormous scope of the Gospels, simply the last seven days in Jesus' life but with the divinity of Christ and the Resurrection left out. JCS was created by two talented, engaging young Englishmen, Lyricist Tim Rice, 26, and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber...
...downhill after the Industrial Revolution. "Not since Imperial Rome can there have been so many signposts to gluttony," J.B. Priestley wrote of the Edwardians. (Edward VII's breakfast: haddock, poached eggs, bacon, chicken and woodcock.) Yet coexisting with gluttony, comparatively unimaginative gluttony, was malnutrition. Only one of three Englishmen of military age was found fit for World...
...Cocker/Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a road movie like Hope and Crosby, or for that matter, Hopper and Fonda, never dreamed of. Last year Cocker, his compatriot Leon Russell and a few dozen musicians, singers, wives and assorted girl friends set out under the collective name Mad Dogs and Englishmen to make music all around the country. They played some 65 gigs in 57 days while a camera crew recorded the whole scene, onstage and backstage. The result is a 114-minute carnival of high spirits and solid rock 'n' roll that is almost as much...