Word: spiv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of conspirator-without-portfolio, Dirk finds himself in a jungle of spies and counterspies-a hashish-smoking English spiv who feeds both true and false information to the British embassy for the price of his food and rent, a degraded homosexual German who is in the double employ of the palace clique and the free officers' group. Everywhere, too, are agents of the Wafd, the venal party of the land-owning beys and pashas...
What Harry doesn't know is that his wife is quivering at her roots, too-over Aldo, a part-time actor, gigolo, spiv and, of course, a "god." Jane writes letters to Aldo in which she calls him "lord and master of my life." The attempt to recover these letters forms a plot as schematic as a shooting script...
...grows up to be a spiv and live with a prostitute. Thelma grows up to marry an aging lawyer and develop arty airs at musicales. Stan's bitter cup is not full, however, until Amy. in a climacteric crisis, commits adultery with a red-haired traveling salesman. A tongue-tied Lear, Stan buries his sorrow in a drunken, big-city binge, winds up lying among empty crates in a side-street lot and spits at the "paper sky, quite flat, and white, and Godless...
...want to get as far away from it as I can, an' I try to, an' the only way I can is in me pictures, me own buildings, me own cities." "A Sort of Spiv." In the past, Taylor has had little to thank life for, and he gives it little thanks. The son of an oddBrian Seed BRITAIN'S TAYLOR & "THE AQUEDUCT...
...they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin' or breakin' windows, an' then boozin' and gettin' into trouble with the police. I was a sort of spiv all right...