Word: thatcherism
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...week the Sunday News of the World (circ. 4.8 million) carried a five-page story claiming that Archer had offered Prostitute Monica Coghlan (pounds)2,000 ($2,800) to pay for a trip abroad to avoid scandal. The same day, Archer resigned the post to which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had appointed him a year earlier...
...time of Kane and Abel (1979), Archer was out of debt and into fame. That brought him to the attention of Thatcher, who liked his novels and comeback success story. She tapped him for the party post, where he drew good crowds on the political circuit...
...this lively postscript he shows the hopelessness of that ambition. The Titanic, Lord notes, has become a permanent political symbol: "She has been used to depict the troubles of Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. In British cartoons both the ship and the iceberg have represented Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher." The Titanic is also a lure for trivia buffs: "Who led the ship's band? (Wallace Hartley.) Which smokestack was the dummy? (The fourth.)" And the tragedy furnishes social historians with a cutaway of Edwardian strata: "Should normal Class Precedence prevail," the crew wondered, "or the rule of 'Women and children...
...against the concrete walls of propriety. Then he meets Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb), a pug- faced groupie from a Philadelphia suburb, and starts living up to his name. As the defiantly incompetent bass player for the Sex Pistols, Sid became the working-class hero and elitists' toy of pre-Thatcher Britain. To the romanticizers of punk anarchy, Sid's abuse of his body, his buddies and his music gave evidence of a rock Rimbaud. And squalid Nancy was plenty eager to share his psychopathy. Before long he was killing her loudly with his song: she died, apparently with his clumsy...
...Britain's second break with an Arab country in two and a half years. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government ended relations with Libya in April 1984 after gunfire from the Libyan Embassy killed a London policewoman during a demonstration by Libyan exiles...