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...that wasn't enough to discourage her. She remained a complete Anglophile, majored in English literature at Barnard, wrote her senior thesis on T. S. Eliot, and went back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias in Soho - and a place on King's Road where she could buy a pair of bell-bottom slacks by Foale & Tuffin that made her something of a trend setter back home in New York...
Roly-ProleyMarxist.Unhappily,Dylan had histrionic as well as poetic gifts, and they urged him not only to be but to play the poet. Since the poetic image was proletarian at the time (1934), Dylan promptly plunged into the slums of Soho and there tried terribly hard to be a roly-proley Marxist. Though he looked like a choirboy, he argued like a Bolshevik, dressed like a bum, drank like a culvert, smoked like an ad for cancer, bragged that he was addicted to onanism and had committed an indecency with a member of Parliament. He slept with any woman...
What happens when Moscow girl delegate meets local London Red? Twistski in a Soho bar, for one thing. But not really a new twistski. He explores her Communist lines, they go off to his flat to have their own Communist party, social realism ensues, and almost everyone ends up hating Communism. End of story. Save...
...brows that shoot up in startled innocence or beetle down with Mac the Knife malevolence; lugubrious eyes rocketing around like apoplectic billiard balls; a Scotch-sodden thatch of mustache, and, of course, those two front teeth, gaping wide as Becher's Brook. Wherever he takes a stroll, from Soho to Sunset Boulevard, Terry-Thomas is stopped by little old ladies who ask him to smile. When he obliges, they always exclaim: "It's real...
...head which looks like Simba the lion in repose. A restless creature, he roams the streets late at night looking like some shabby fugitive, in his black wrap-around leather coat and Dutch-boy cap. Three or four nights a week he drops in at a private, after-hours Soho club called the Ad Lib, where he twists along with such fellow members as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Nobody laughs at anybody's hair there...