Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his last paragraph, the author succeeds finally in pinning the romance of it all to the page. The Cunard Line's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth are to be sold and turned into dockside catchpennies. But for one last time, on the Great Circle route between Liverpool and New York, they approach each other and pass in the night. A few middle-aged ship lovers on the Elizabeth think sentimental thoughts as they watch the Mary rush by, while necking teen-agers snicker. "As the darkness closes over and the long wakes are joined, the sentimentalists stand...
...swallowed it, it caused internal bleeding and death, usually within five days. For about 25 years, man felt he had the rat on the run. No more. British health authorities have discovered that brown "house" rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Wales and black "ship" rats (Rattus rattus) on Liverpool's docks now eat warfarin as casually as if it were an appetizer. Clearly a new immune strain has developed-the super...
...Beatles were still relative unknowns playing stale-smelling dives in Liverpool, and Bob Dylan was staring hopefully into the spotlights at Greenwich Village folk clubs. The vogue back in 1960 was something known as "uptown rhythm and blues"-the first attempt to make R. and B. more palatable to the white audience. Uptown R. and B, was so named not because any downtown brand existed, but because in the offices of what had once been New York's Tin Pan Alley, some of the best young white producers and writers were turning out new song material for all-black...
...solo album, McCartney. "To my dismay, he went completely out of control," said Ringo, "shouting at me, pointing his finger toward my face, shouting 'I'll finish you now!' and 'You'll pay!' " Said John Lennon: "From our earliest days in Liverpool, George [Harrison] and I, on the one hand, and Paul, on the other, had different musical tastes. Paul preferred pop-type music, and we preferred what is now called underground." Harrison testified that Paul constantly showed a superior attitude to him and his music: "I was fed up with him telling...
Armed only with the script's Vance Packard sociology and minor motivation, he thrusts at the viewer an organization man without his bowler, his brolly-or his skin. Raised in the blackened sidestreets of Liverpool, Marler, the former Jesuit novice, has created a future by annihilating his past. But his past is overwhelming, an overpowering part of himself...