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...from simply transcribing Sandy Wilson's 1954 Broadway pastiche of 1920s musicals, Russell's screenplay frames it within several other stories. The main one deals with a seedy repertory troupe that is performing The Boy Friend somewhere in the English provinces. This device enables Russell not only to show the troupe onstage doing scenes from the show but at the same time affectionately to mock the whole genre of backstage musicals...
...lives outside these parentheses on a terrain of amoral candor about the most extreme situations. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"-so William Blake, whose mask Bacon once painted. Bacon's career has been a pursuit of this truth, from the transvestite bars of 1920s Berlin to the green baize of Monte Carlo, where he still assuages his passion for gambling. He is the Genet of painting, most particularly in the lavishness with which he uses his own psyche as experimental material...
...anywhere (at $70 a gallon). Sir James views it all with the sanguine air of a man who started as the operator of a chain of movie theaters in London's Hammersmith area (the source of the name Hammer). His Spanish-born father established the chain in the 1920s; today his son Michael, 44, carries on the family tradition by serving as Hammer's executive producer. "Frankenstein never gave anyone bad ideas," says Sir James. "Dracula could never be held responsible for a crime wave...
Legal Obstacle. Proposals for all-year schooling have been around since the 1920s, but the trend began picking up momentum four years ago with voluntary plans like that in Atlanta. Wanting to provide more flexible schedules for students holding part-time jobs or taking special programs, Atlanta, Miami, San Diego and several other communities offer standard courses in summer school. Kids who attend can then take extra subjects-or vacation-in a winter term. The optional plans have done little to alleviate crowding, however. Therefore newer plans like Valley View's are compulsory...
...grand old iron man of bicycle racing; in Belleville, N.J. One of 14 children born to an Irish immigrant couple in the Australian Outback, young Reggie hunted kangaroos and sold their pelts so he could pay the entry fees for local bike events. McNamara reached his peak in the 1920s as champion of the six-day marathon races held at Madison Square Garden, but continued to whoosh around the track until his retirement in the late 1930s. The battered bicyclist later fought alcoholism, then returned to the sport in the 1940s as a referee...