Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Need Is Cash is a mock documentary that follows a legendary rock group called the Rutles from obscurity in Liverpool to international fame. Most of its events are overly familiar. Like the Beatles, the Rutles play Hamburg and the Ed Sullivan show; they revolutionize rock with an album called Sgt. Rutter's Dart Club Band; they receive M.B.E.s from the Queen and fall under the spell of a guru...
Rather than picking up after Brontë's novel, Heathcliff begins and ends during it. Novelist Jeffrey Caine attempts to show where Heathcliff was during the roughly three years he was absent from Wuthering Heights. L'Estrange suggests in passing that he was in Liverpool, working on the docks. Caine insists that he went to London and made a fortune in the underworld...
...unlikely painter in question was George Stubbs. The son of a Liverpool tanner, Stubbs began drawing human bones when he was only eight years old. Later in life he sequestered himself on a Lincolnshire farm with his "niece," lugged the carcasses of horses into his studio, then flayed and dissected them so he could study their anatomy. Local folk complained that Stubbs made the country round smell like a battlefield. But in 1766, when Stubbs finally published his scrupulous horse drawings, they were recognized as masterly. His paintings, however, were admired mainly by horse lovers, many of them titled. Only...
...cagers entered the Hall of Fame Tournament in Springfield Friday night, no knowledgeable basketball fan west of Liverpool would have given them a chance to beat any one of the other three teams involved in the tourney...
...FILM'S first sequence (set, as is the entire play, in the Elliots' cramped, drably decorated apartment in Liverpool) finds the greased-up Finney in the early sixties and on a rampage against the hypocrisy of working class morality--his own and that of his married drinking cronfies. The wedded worker's carnal ethic becomes rigid and depraved, Finney insists: rigid because after "a blighter shafts away until he accidentally shafts his way into marriage" his imposed sense of guilt keeps him from shafting on the side; depraved because the same man makes up for his nagging rigidity by "lusting...