Word: liars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BILLY LIAR. Working-class life in Britain inspires a social cipher (Tom Courtenay) to imagine a faster, funnier world where his own word...
Sexless Harem. Then one unfortunate day, Owen has an impulse toward candor and tells his mistress he has a wife and his wife he has a mistress. Neither seems particularly surprised, for, as Sybil puts it, Owen has always been "a bit of a liar." Sybil goes dutifully up to London for the great confrontation scene. Finding Alex feverishly ill, she hustles the girl down to Oxfordshire to convalesce under Owen's roof. Nights, wife and mistress sit contentedly together doing jigsaw puzzles; occasionally they dissolve into helpless laughter at the thought of Owen's predicament. The poor...
...Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar," said the admiral, "and I'm mad." Bulkeley then ordered workmen with saws and acetylene torches to the scene, watched as they cut the two pipes leading into the base from Cuba, thus shutting off Castro's water once and for all. Said Bulkeley: "That...
...BILLY LIAR. Working-class life in Britain inspires a social cipher (Tom Courtenay) to imagine a faster, funnier world where his own word...
...outrageous cliches that protrude glaringly from the actual flow of plot. As a result, the fantasy sequences might well suggest a delightful spoof of the "81/2"--Marienbad treatment, where the inventions of the protagonist's teeming consciousness must be painstakingly divorced from what is really happening. Happily, Billy Liar makes no such intellectual demands on its audience...