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...good times can't last. When macho skinhead Combo (played by a snarling Stephen Graham) turns up at a party, fresh out of jail, things are about to go awry. Quickly the alpha Combo sets about ousting Woody with a classic divide-and-rule speech about the need for "proud warriors" to defend England's green and pleasant land. Having then established himself as a surrogate father to Shaun, Woody drags the remaining members of the gang, after several desertions, to a fascist National Front rally...
When Tony Blair was elected to Britain's House of Commons in 1983, he was just 30, the Labour Party's youngest M.P. Labour had just fought and lost a disastrous election campaign on a far-left platform, and Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her victory in the Falklands War, was in her pomp. The opposition to Thatcher was limited to a few ancient warhorses and a handful of bright young things. Blair, boyish Blair, quickly became one of the best of the breed...
...group's guiding force for nearly 80 years, Davis enforced a strict behavior code (he once fined himself $20 for playing a racy Muddy Waters tune on a jukebox instead of a religious song) and oversaw such musical innovations as the use of electric guitar. Although the Birds' fresh harmonies and passionate gesticulating drew secular fans, Davis declined an offer to tour with Paul Simon after singing backup on Simon's 1973 hit Love Me like a Rock. Why rebuff the megamoney? The group had previous commitments to play at churches. "As far as I was concerned," said Davis...
...that two years in the congressional majority may burden Democrats with some perceived responsibility for the country's allegedly parlous state. But the presidency and the President will still tend to dominate the news and be held accountable--and the Bush Administration is proving particularly adept at providing ever fresh instances of scandal, pseudo scandal and incompetence to remind people they're in charge...
...work is really relevant right now,” he explains. “And I’ve been struck by how many people, you know, kind of jaded from the contemporary art world, come in and say ‘oh my god it feels so fresh.” Proctor expands the seemingly trivializing maxim of Fluxus—the notion that “anything can be art and anyone can do it”—by explaining its central themes in terms of contemporary society. Rather than limiting art to the elite, Proctor...