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Peter H Salus's avatar

Cameron in 'Cats' is a blatant affront to T.S. Eliot, IMO.

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Peter H Salus's avatar

An insult to Dorothy Dandridge!

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Jim Kidd's avatar

Penny Mordaunt would be Carmen Jones, the film adapted from Bizet, in which the boxer (the opera's Toreador) sings (as I recall) 'Stand Up and Fight'.

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ParcelOfRogue's avatar

The Tory Party is getting into Hitler/Mussolini but... territory. It could be expressed such as:

Hitler was an evil man who did try to destroy Britain, but on the other hand he did have some great ideas on...blah, blah. Complete the sentence.

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Nick Wray's avatar

I think that I could do with more of this kind of thing

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Alan Rew's avatar

Your phrase

"A very English sort of quiet desperation"

reminded me of this line from a Pink Floyd track:

"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" - Pink Floyd, "Time", from Dark Side of the Moon, 1973.

I now have to ask you whether you're a Pink Floyd fan!

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