Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condolence have been coming from Priya's colleagues and friends all over the world. "He was a very brave man and a good friend," Jonathan Randal of the New York Times cabled from Warsaw. "An excellent traveling companion in dodgy places," said Safer. "Priya," explained TIME's London bureau chief Jim Bell, "was one of those quiet guys whom everyone liked. I never heard anyone say an unkind word about Priya, and I never heard Priya say an unkind word about anyone else...
...films are beginning, to provide Pleasence with a measure of artistic largesse. Next month, he, Pinter and Shaw, who have incorporated themselves as Glasshouse Productions, will sponsor a play by a young British writer named John Hopkins at London's Royal Court Theater. The plot is a parable of human guilt: a policeman kicks a child-murderer to death in his cell, thus becoming as bad as the killer himself. Pleasence's own acting ambitions are more conventional. "I'd really like to do a season of repertory with Shaw," he muses...
Indeed, so widely has the computer's brain been applied to esthetic pursuits that London's Institute of Contemporary Art has mounted an entire exhibit devoted to "Cybernetic Serendipity." In seven weeks, it has packed in 40,000 London art lovers, schoolboys, mathematicians and Chelsea old-age pensioners, and from admissions alone has all but recouped its $45,000 cost...
...that their bodies have been sighted by an electric eye, which in turn triggers the computer-generated voice that welcomes them in a deep monotone. They may be approached by R.O.S.A. (Radio Operated Simulated Actress) Bosom, a roving electronic robot who actually appeared with live performers in a 1966 London production of The Three Musketeers (R.O.S.A. played the Queen of France...
...story, cold-warring Russia and the U.S., after inadvertently eradicating all life from the British Isles, join in recreating Merry England with fake issues of the London Times and fond memories of Robin Hood. In another, a cuckolded space scientist packages his wife as condensed food for a Mars-bound astronaut, who has already enjoyed her in other ways...