Word: liverpool
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With an uncaring right and an impotent left, where can the poor people of my onetime home town, Liverpool, go but to the streets to express their frustration and anger...
...more pence is just the start of what would right the grievances of the hundreds of young people who rioted in Liverpool on the eve of the wedding. Not even the shock of the first riot death -David Moore, 22, run down by a police van during what was officially termed "mobile pursuit tactics"-could take the edge off the festivity. Australia's Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Patrick White suggested that the wedding was "a kind of rosy women's weekly romance to lull the more soft-centered among us and distract us from reality." There was, however...
...tracking rioters in London neighborhoods to chatting amiably with Prince Charles' tailor for this week's cover story on the royal wedding. TIME'S Ken Banta, who had just moved to London after finishing a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, found himself on the burning streets of Liverpool. London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo, who was on special assignment in New York City, brought with her a bulging notebook from which she reported for the cover, all the while closely following the violence back in Britain...
...seems easier for everyone, however, to give three cheers and subsume the flames that came from Brixton and Manchester and Liverpool in the more congenial firelight of the wedding-eve pyrotechnics at Hyde Park and the 101 celebratory bonfires ignited all over the kingdom, from Scotland and Wales to the Shetlands and the Scillys, even to the embattled north of Ireland. "When politics are in rather a mess," remarks Lady Elizabeth Longford, a historian and biographer, "any institution that is above politics gets an extra dose of glamour...
...equal in contemporary literature. Like the Flashman mock memoirs, which skewer the Victorian scene with such wealth of detail that many American reviewers at first thought them to be authentic historical documents, Mr. American teems with minutiae ranging from the price of the London & Northwestern train trip from Liverpool to London (just under $6, first class) to details of the Countess of Cardigan's Recollections (scandalous...