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...should be forbidden because such arrangements are "liable to moral objection." Critics on all sides did not hesitate to attack. A Roman Catholic spokesman called the practice of AID "morally unacceptable," while a newspaper columnist denounced restrictions on pregnancy as "ludicrously inconsistent." But unless such differences are settled, warned Sir John Peel, former president of the British Medical Association, society will confront "the brink of something almost like the atomic bomb...
...looking for a pattern, Sir Nigel," Forsyth's hero, Agent John Preston, reports to his boss. "It's all I can look for. A pattern of entries and exits by the same passport number. . . . It's not much, but it's all I have...
Such Op-Ed argumentation has begun to appear, alas, in other thrillers. Its most notable recent use was in General Sir John Hackett's two books noisily predicting a third world war. But Hackett's purpose was not to write novels; it was to use the techniques of fiction to argue his case for a buildup in conventional arms. An escape narrative must be nimbler. In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and his later novels, Le Carré gave the spy thriller all the ideological baggage that the pockets of a trench coat could handle...
Capitalizing on the rage for things Oriental that had also seized writers such as Pierre Loti and Gustave Flaubert and scholars like Sir Richard Burton, the Orientalist artists vied with one another in seeking out exotica. Harems aside, the subjects that most mesmerized them were slave markets, carpet bazaars, whirling dervishes, Arab stallions, caravans of caparisoned camels and wind-whipped burnooses of Bedouins on the sands of the Sahara. "There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture...
...Under the Sun), and jumped at the chance to work with Lean. On the set he was free to wander, plucking shots of the 235 crew members and a cast that includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Judy (My Brilliant Career) Davis, Indian Actor Victor Banerjee and, of course, Sir Alec Guinness. Guinness's career has been entwined with Lean's since the 1940s, when he was featured in the director's memorable adaptations of Dickens' Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. "Alec is a great man," is Snowdon's simple judgment. "The great ones have...