Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beatles had ceased to exist, except on records and film, ten years earlier. Hopes that the lads from Liverpool would somehow come together again fed on myths, not reality; an inability to tell one from the other was a prime symptom of Beatlemania. The Beatles themselves were not always immune. Their biographer tries to be, and largely succeeds. His detailed narrative sets forth a story that still, no matter how carefully documented, seems unbelievable...
...been told before, but never so thoroughly. In the beginning, there was luck. A Liverpool performance attracted the interest of Brian Epstein, a wealthy young record-store owner and an agonized closet homosexual. Although drawn to what he saw onstage, Epstein sensed that the world was not waiting for four sweaty boys in leather suits. After talking himself on board as their manager, Epstein literally cleaned up their act. Next came timing. The British press and public were growing weary of the Profumo scandal and its sleazy aftershocks; what was needed was a little innocent fun. The newly fluffed...
...cheaper, and old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer." By this point in his life, 1959. Behan had mellowed considerably, the former impassioned rebel who, twenty years earlier-as a sixteen-year old member of the Irish Republican Army-was arrested in Liverpool for the possession of explosives, had long dispensed with his plans for blowing up British battleships. Instead of violent action, he turned to art to express his beliefs...
...clashes between blacks and neofascist white organizations like the thuggish National Front. Brixton's riot did not seem to follow that disturbing model, but instead traced another pattern, one that could be copied elsewhere. As a Brixton resident gloomily put it, "Next time it might be Cardiff or Liverpool. They've got the same problems: rundown cities and high unemployment...
...enables the body to burn sugar for energy. Last December a Derby, Kans., housewife, Sandy Athertone, 37, became the first diabetic to be injected with bacterially made insulin. It came from the pharmaceutical labs of Eli Lilly, which is spending $40 million to build plants in Indianapolis and outside Liverpool, England, to make human insulin by means of recombinant DNA. More recently other diabetics began receiving bacterial insulin in a test program in six U.S. cities. Lilly plans similar trials in Canada and Europe. Says one participating doctor, Fred Whitehouse of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital: "So far the synthetic...