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With this scene of primeval terror, a young Englishwoman named Jane Goodall began an intimacy with the chimpanzees in the rain forests of Tanzania that has lasted a decade and produced one of natural history's most impressive field studies. In this book she has greatly expanded the preliminary report on her experiences, My Friends: The Wild Chimpanzees (1967); the photographs speak a volume in themselves. In the Shadow of Man should become an instant animal classic...
...Club's Koos extends the same kind of courtesy to all pet owners. A vacationing Englishwoman stopped in recently with a minipoodle and a problem. "I'm taking the train to Le Havre," she said, "but Fifi doesn't like trains. So could you please drive her to Le Havre?" The club obliged...
Leader and founder of the troupe is Isabelle Standwell, an Englishwoman whose aristocratic manners seem oddly appropriate both to Lady Macbeth and Wilde's Lady Bracknell She also lends her dowager tones to Schubert lieder and such trifles as Nevermore from Noel Coward's Conversation Piece. Her brother Sicnarf, having lived in America, has acquired a Southern accent as well as a rowdy taste in music and poetry; he does the genial turns...
Director Vincente Minelli once set trends in Hollywood musicals (The Band Wagon, An American in Paris). For On A Clear Day, he puts his star through all that is passe. As an Englishwoman falling on her London derriere, Barbra is camp Joan Greenwood. As the clumsy American who washed her brain and can't do a thing with it, she is Jerry Lewis in drag. During the songs, she slips comfortably into recording-studio Streisand, belting and purring Burton Lane's monotonies as if they were melodies. Funny Girl, her first and best film, seemed written for Barbra...
Margaret Drabble is a presumably emancipated young Englishwoman in a presumably emancipated world. But her stories-at 30, she has written five brilliantly uneven novels-return atavistically to the primal theme. The difference is, society no longer really punishes the girls who dare to. They do the job themselves, wryly, with masochistic lashes of good old late-20th-century guilt...