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Both Owen and Peach link−and sometimes identify−the fate of Rubery Owen with the fate of Britain. Both, in their distinctly separate ways, share a sense of loss about the nation as well as the company...
...Peach: When you were a child, you had it drilled into you that Great Britain was great. But what are we today? When a twopenny-ha'penny sergeant like Amin takes the urine out of Britain, it's a pretty mean level we have sunk to. And now that we are in the Common Market, we are just like all those other countries who have foreigners making decisions...
...Peach: I am loyal to my class. It is the only reason I vote Labor, because the party is now run by bloody academics. It isn't the working class representing the working class any more...
...Peach: We keep getting all this cheap stuff from abroad to put our own workers out of work. Somebody's unloading goods on Britain from countries where people are happy with a bowl of rice...
...Pierre Blaise, 20, French peasant woodcutter who starred in Louis Malle's provocative 1974 film Lacombe, Lucien; in a car crash along with two companions; near Montauban, France. Blaise, who had never acted before, bested 1,000 others who had tried out for the role of the squarejawed, peach-cheeked farm boy, Lucien Lacombe. Blaise had then starred in three other films, most recently the unreleased Par des Escaliers Anciens (By Way of the Old Staircase) with Marcello Mastroianni...