Word: liverpudlian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divorced. Ringo Starr, 35, former Beatle drummer lately boogalooing it solo; in an uncontested suit by his wife of ten years, Maureen Cox, 28, a Liverpudlian hairdresser who bore him three children; on grounds of Ringo's alleged adultery with Nancy Andrews, 24, an American model whom he met on a blind date in Los Angeles last summer...
...novel's dreary lives are redeemed in the telling. Bainbridge's ear catches the tang of Liverpudlian argot ("My word, we do look a bobby dazzler"). The sisters' petty quarrels are small excursions of humanity in straitened circumstances. When Rita learns that her churlish soldier is illiterate, her dismayed brain is soon assuaged by her emotions. "Dear God, she thought, running up the cobbled alleyway, if he was that unschooled, he would need her, he would want to hold her in his life." Bainbridge unwisely changes her novel into a standard shocker on the final pages...
...gonna love you like nobody's loved you, come rain or come shine." For a brief moment at Manhattan's St. Regis hotel, the '30s notion that hearts were made to be broken was revived. The spiritualist: former Liverpudlian Mabel Mercer, 73, who began singing 60 years ago and went on to become the Madame de Sévigné of the supper clubs. Seated in a Louis XV armchair, Mercer held the kind of wry musical conversation on affairs of the heart that has made a minor art form of ballad singing and influenced singers from...
...sorry sight to see the English at their pleasures," observes an Irish Liverpudlian in The Reckoning. Sorrier still it is to see the dislocated Hibernians at theirs. For the ancients, there is the public house where they undergo the peculiar process Yeats called "withering into truth." For the film's protagonist, Michael Marler (Nicol Williamson), there is London pyramid climbing-ascending corporate strata by using the bow-and-scrape to superiors and the knee-in-groin against competitors...