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...establishment, hastily renamed one of its drafty old ballrooms "The Somerset Cabaret" and invited Jacques over to entertain for a spell. And is the dear boy still doing well, you ask. That, it seems, is debatable. The opening night audience couldn't have been more appreciative. ("Those songs just knock me out," one lady was so moved to confess.) But there's a world of difference between the gilded gold of the Somerset's Louis Quatorze ballroom and the smoky post-war cabaret in which, one suspects, Brel's songs would be most at home. Whatever merits the original Charles...
Every Saturday night, Frisble and his fellow members of "The Room: Cleverly 19" don their "The Room" T-shirts and settle down to a good old-fashioned, knock-out beer blast, and open the doors of The Room to all their buddies on the football and rugby teams...
...stand in favor of the no-knock provision of the D. C. crime bill has angered many liberals who otherwise would have supported him gladly. The provision permits police, under certain circumstances, to enter a building without first announcing their presence or occupation...
...frequency of reports concerning the snooping activities of various branches of government has lent credence to fears of a growing repressive apparatus. The disclosure that Internal Revenue Service agents have been checking cards in various libraries and the passage of the D. C. Crime Bill with its controversial no-knock and wiretapping provisions are only the most recent examples of such potentially-repressive activities...
...that was periodically invaded by Oswald Mosley's fascist bullyboys. Pinter remembers that as an adolescent, he had to run a gauntlet of broken milk bottles thrust menacingly at him. Not surprisingly, the boy's imagination was permeated by the Nazi massacre of the Jews. The threatened knock at the door, with the certainty of horrible punishment for an uncommitted crime, was a sound of terror in his mind before he ever recorded it on the stage...