Word: mods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Realms Remote. In a dubious compliment, London's Daily Mirror described the new Rolls as having a "Mod look," and the Daily Telegraph exulted that the car "has stepped down from some realm remote from ordinary things and is now 'with it.' " But the style changes shocked and saddened traditionalists. The magazine Auto-Journal observed that by bringing the car "into the classic line of everyman's car, Rolls no longer strikes the eye and thus loses a great part of its singularity and originality." Paris' Le Monde regretted that "Rolls is losing little...
...gone mod and turned into a granny. It happened in Los Angeles, and within a month grannies had shown up on Wilshire Boulevard in broad daylight, at the Beatles concert in the Hollywood Bowl, at Disneyland and U.C.L.A...
...Rita Tushingham) at large in London who stumbles into a house occupied by three oddball bachelors. One is a potent pipsqueak (Ray Brooks), mysteriously endowed with the knack of "making it" with the opposite sex. One is a pallid, reticent schoolteacher (Michael Crawford), for whom the way of a Mod with a maid remains ever beyond reach. The third (Donal Donnelly) is a simple eccentric who spends his energy painting the walls of his room white...
...vast era of prehistory. In that remote period, they say, the region that is now the northwest shore of Lake Superior was covered by a shallow sea or perhaps a chain of lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were created by living matter...
...middle of the magazine contains six pages of drawings by S.A. Pizer and W.S. Donnell caricaturing various Englishmen as Mods and Rockers. It's the kind of feature you can see they spent a lot of time on and you really want to find amusing. But what's funny about the Duke of Windsor's being "something of a Mod" while "the Duchess is another story?" Is it simply that for either of them to be either a Rocker or a Mod is ludicrous? Some personal quirks hinted at? Anyway...