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...with a Stranger, written by Playwright Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) and directed by Mike Newell, who has worked in British and American TV; and Insignificance, directed by Nicolas Roeg from a play and screenplay by Terry Johnson. All three films are ferociously critical of Britain or its thunder-stealing ally, the U.S. All are set (at least in part) in the 1950s, when postimperial Britain shrank into the Brave New Nothing-very-much-thank-you. All have, ironically, reinvigorated British cinema and helped restore it to world-power status...
...days it was Odessa High vs. Midland High. But as the towns grew they added new schools. Odessa opened Odessa Permian in 1959. Midland opened Midland Robert E. Lee in 1961. The new schools stole the thunder from the old schools. An alumnus of old Odessa High said the other day, "Nobody wants to hear about our merit scholars or that our chorus went to Wales last year. All they talk about is Permian football." Today Odessa-Midland football means the Permian Panthers and the Midland Lee Rebels...
...moved smartly out of the summer pleasure domes of the upper class during the past four decades. But polo, the world's toniest contact sport, remained haughtily and expensively cloistered. No more. On weekend afternoons around the country, crowds of tailgating fans show up to watch scores of horses thunder across neatly turfed ten-acre greenswards. Willow mallets whistle--pock--as high-charging riders smack a 4-oz. white wooden ball. Brooks Fire-stone, 49, of the tire Firestones, reports, "It's no longer a social, rich man's game...
...there's a franchise asimmerin' around Catman! Or maybe Thunderbaby. When I cry, I will emit thunder and lighting. I'll be swaddled in a diaper the entire shoot...
...It’s not that he lost his thunder, but he just put everything into the play,” Pangilinan says...