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...paid-up domestic help for the British, as one anecdote tellingly reveals: when he took the British viceroy of India out on tiger hunts, the maharaja of Gwalior measured the animals shot by his guest "with a special tape that had eleven inches to a foot," so that the Englishman would never suffer the ignominy of having bagged the smaller tiger...
...production of Look Back in Anger. But the Angry Young Man tag never quite fit Bates' protean gifts. As a charming killer in Nothing But the Best or a Jewish prisoner in The Fixer, wrestling nude in Women in Love or incarnating the lonely spy Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad, he brought strength, delicacy, wit and humanity to each role. In films he often chaperoned showier stars (Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek, Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl, Bette Midler in The Rose) to Oscar nominations; he was the solid ground they danced on. The stage allowed...
Absolute Friends bristles with that outrage. It is the story of Ted, a tall, genial, impressionable Englishman, and Sasha, a tiny, misshapen, brilliant, fiercely idealistic German. The two men meet for the first time as fire-breathing anarchists in a counterculture commune in Berlin in the 1960s and, improbably, become fast friends. The book's rhythm is that of their chance meetings. Over the years, Ted drifts into life as a minor diplomat, and a decade later, he re-encounters Sasha at an official reception. Now an East German functionary, Sasha proposes an intelligence operationsmuggling state secrets to the West...
...production of Look Back in Anger. But the Angry Young Man tag never quite fit Bates' protean gifts. As a charming killer in Nothing but the Best or a Jewish prisoner in The Fixer, wrestling nude in Women in Love or incarnating the lonely spy Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad, he brought strength, delicacy, wit and humanity to each role. In films, he often chaperoned showier stars (Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek; Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl; Bette Midler in The Rose) to Oscar nominations; he was the solid ground they danced on. The stage allowed...
...must have been cursed... When we have made the apology we will be clean again." Filimoni Nawawabalevu, Fiji village chief, before a tribal ceremony to assuage his village's guilt for consuming an English missionary in 1867. According to a contemporary report, the villagers ate all parts of the Englishman "but his boots...