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...social betters. Amis, however, whose education was interrupted by four years of service in the Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, returned to Oxford with no intention of kowtowing to the prevailing dogmas. He and his friend Philip Larkin, another scholarship boy who went on to literary renown, hung out in pubs, listened to American jazz and privately mocked the arty, Bloomsbury pretensions of their dons. Amis' skill at mimicry flowered in Larkin's appreciative presence: "Kingsley's masterpiece, which was so demanding I heard him do it only twice, involved three subalterns, a Glaswegian driver...
...week, the HFA will challenge the limits of common decency in presenting their Flesh and Blood series--six films which over the last thirty years have achieved renown, justified or not, for their explorations of sex and violence. Not surprisingly, the series relies heavily on films from the '60s--"Blow-Up" (1966), "Vixen!" (1968), "Midnight Cowboy" (1969) and "I Am Curious (Yellow)" (1969)--but also includes 1973's "Last Tango in Paris" and 1994's "Natural! Born Killers...
...candidacy to awaken the rest of the political world to the possibilities of running outside the sinking two-party system, and Perot has not ruled out the idea of tapping his billions and trying it again. He remains such a force that virtually every politician of national renown-with the notable exception of Bill Clinton, who nonetheless sent an emissary-braved the August heat in Dallas to lavish tribute on the jug-eared Wizard at his Oz of a political convention...
...Shah could be worth seeing for its originality alone. It's not often a world-renown Tai Ch'i master (Mark) joins a gymnastic/hip-hop performance team in a play directed by someone trained as a mime...
...kung fu diva is played by Bow Sim Mark, a world-renown Tai Ch'i master. She is known for her work in transforming Tai Ch'i into a performing...