Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like many forbidden dramas, it was later performed privately at one of London's "theater clubs," which were exempt from the licensing laws...
...1930s and early 1940s were sturdily realistic. At the time, he was decorating the walls of the Bleecker Street Tavern with $5 murals, to make ends meet. His break into abstraction was sudden and dramatic. For years, he had been making increasingly simplified sketches; as an art student in London, he had also collected Japanese prints. One day in 1949, he was visiting a friend who had a Balopticon projector; they enlarged several Kline sketches on the wall. The blown-up image wrenched the drawings out of all relation to reality. Kline saw before him an abstract composition that...
...nobody's surprise, London's Decca Records concluded that the cover was "in dubious taste," and refused to distribute the album on its release date two months ago, thus holding up sales that probably would have amounted to $1,000,000. Decca may have been thinking of rival EMI's problem in 1966 when its U.S. subsidiary, Capitol Records, had to recall 500,000 copies of a Beatles album because of the cover. It showed the Beatles, in butcher smocks, laden with chunks of raw meat and the decapitated bodies of dolls...
...Stones' case, life tends to imitate art. Two weeks ago, a London court found Guitarist Brian Jones guilty of possessing narcotics and fined...
...only bit of Britain occupied by the Nazis during World War II; in Guernsey. Guernsey was "taken" in 1940 by the crews of four transport planes. But Sherwill and the Guernsey folk made life miserable for the Germans, helping P.O.W.s to escape, and reporting every Nazi move to London...