Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Philosophically speaking, is it even possible to desecrate the U.S. flag? One can desecrate something that is sacred, holy or religious (which is just what desecrate primarily means, according to the Oxford English Dictionary). Is the U.S. flag sacred, holy or religious? Or is it a symbol of a secular state...
Lloyd, the English teenager who won prizes for her role in Wish You Were Here, imports a fetching presence and an acute mimicry to her Brooklyn punkster. The rest of the cast has fun playing in a farce summer-stocked with plot twists and cunning character studies. A perfect forgettable comedy -- now what was its name? Ah, yes. Tasty, brittle, sweet, of no nutritional value . . . Cookie...
...when he's not in the thick of things, he is the Pogues' charismatic center. It was MacGowan and his writing that got Terry Woods out of retirement. At 42, Woods is older by a decade than the rest of the band, and he played with such mid-'70s English electric-folk groups as Steeleye Span, on whose influence the Pogues have drawn extensively. "I've been through the folk revival; I've been through the decline of the revival," he says. "But I liked MacGowan's writing. A lot of Irish music had been parlorized by the English...
Sports-mad South Africans have been desperate for world-class competition since international sporting bodies began banning them 25 years ago and vowed not to readmit them until apartheid was abolished. With the news two weeks ago that a "rebel" English cricket team would play two tours in South Africa, most of the country's whites rejoiced...
...very different character. A character who, rather awkwardly for me, doesn't herself believe in the concept of character. That is to say (a favorite phrase of her own) Robyn Penrose, Temporary Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Rummidge, holds that "character" is a bourgeois myth, an illusion created to reinforce the ideology of capitalism...