Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tasteless nonsense," "blatant rubbish," "a great big bore," howled the London critics. Worse yet, many viewers got the feeling that perhaps fame had at last gone to the Beatles' heads. Concluded the Daily Express: "The whole boring saga confirmed a long-held suspicion that the Beatles are four rather pleasant young men who have made so much money that they can apparently afford to be contemptuous of the public." In reply, Paul could only say: "Aren't we entitled to have a flop? Was the film really so bad compared with the rest of the Christmas...
...scene is London, with its wild ways and "soopah" swingers, where Lynn and Rita have come from the provinces to seek fame and fortune. En route to both, there is much stumbling into mud puddles, through roofs and down excavations. There is a paint-spraying scene in one restaurant and a pie-throwing scene in another (both of which seem endless), and a clumsy take-off of an art preview, in which mechanized sculpture chases people around and sprays some more paint on them...
...there was any trait the old London Times carried to excess, it was diffidence. The paper never talked about itself and did not even give its correspondents bylines. Last week the new Times showed once again how much it has changed by running a four-page spread in the Sunday Times magazine boasting of its achievements in the year since it was bought by Lord Thomson of Fleet. Complete with drawings of Thomson, his editor and the paper's heroes, the article told how the "most dignified newspaper in the world hustled its way to being the most talked...
...deadpan boss in M.I.5, and is now operating a seedy, one-man detective agency on his own. Suddenly a mysterious envelope arrives with ? 200 and a locker key, followed by a phone call from a stentorian computer instructing him to deliver the parcel that he will find in a London airport locker to a Dr. Kaarna in Helsinki. The package, Palmer soon discovers, contains deadly, virus-infected eggs...
...this remarkable guided tour of the Chinese mind, the author observes that Peking has become the proper subject "not of the political mathematician but of the sympathetic psychologist." As just the sort of observer he calls for, Bloodworth, who was the Far Eastern correspondent of the London Observer for twelve years, ranges deftly and wittily through Chinese history and literary legend to find the ideas that shape Communist behavior today: the ancient maxims for guerrilla warfare expounded by the 4th century B.C. strategist Sun Wu ("Do not fight a static war, and do not besiege cities"); the Robin Hood-like...