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...remorseless account of physical and emotional breakdown. The trouble began when Taylor started gulping Dexamyl, a combination of amphetamine and tranquilizer, not knowing that it was addictive (Dexamyl has since been taken off the market). In 1968 he disappeared from a tour and spent a nightmare week in Liverpool, drunk, debauched, close to death, a Walpurgisnacht pitilessly described. A few years later his ankle, often injured, was ruined. He had ulcers. Finally he collapsed onstage in Brooklyn and came down with hepatitis. His performing career was over...
...similar status is ensured for Rifat Ozbek. He is, quite literally, a young Turk, 32 years old and born in Istanbul. He studied architecture for two years at the University of Liverpool, but dropped out after construction technicalities began to overwhelm his design inspiration. Fashion offered a fresher, faster alternative: he was beguiled by the speed with which ideas could become a malleable reality. He showed his first eight fashion sketches at London's St. Martin's School of Art, and was immediately accepted. "He's an enormously talented designer with an original point of view," says Lydia Kemeny, Ozbek...
Once upon a time -- Was it really just 20, 22 years ago? -- Liverpool seemed about the hippest place on earth. Adoptive kid brothers of Lennon and McCartney made pilgrimages to the Cavern, to Brian Epstein's record store, to the holy homes of the Fab Four. Teenagers from Connecticut assumed the adenoidal lilt of the Mersey accent and recited lines from A Hard Day's Night with the fervor of mimic acolytes. It was not only the Beatles' music that inspired this love for all things Liverpudlian. It was the discovery of an English city -- working class and influenced...
These days, to judge from its appearance in No Surrender, Liverpool looks like Beirut without the palm trees. The streets are grizzled; the council flats could have been designed by the architect for Attica; the Charleston Club, a night spot where most of the film's action unspools, is a little triumph of dejected bad taste. Young predators attack a blind pensioner or prowl parking lots in search of black mischief. And the police are apt to break into the wrong home and leave the place a shambles. Seems it happens all the time. "We'll get a carpenter straight...
...jobbers like Rock Star Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn as the stage-frighted magician with a dead rabbit under his top hat. The rabbit is the only stiff in this fine time at the movies. And Bleasdale is the best thing to come out of Liverpool since John, Paul, George and Ringo...