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“... repetitive and somewhat self-pitying or sentimental, saw other talents come down from university: Dennis Potter, for example, with his striking power to re-create a setting, a culture, a range of characters different from each other or from their author; or Don Taylor, whose sense of the 17th century is so much harder, more ...”

“... thus more pleasingly. Compare: ‘On fait de son mieux pour faire ses devoirs soi-même.’Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in the posthumously published Anima Poetae, argued that ‘it’ was the right pronoun for referring to indefinite nouns like ‘everyone’ or ‘the person’, ‘in order to avoid particularising man or woman, or in order to express either ...”

“... One wonders what percentage of the original audience knew, or guessed, that two of the actors, Dennis Price and Bogarde himself, were queer too. It must have been a curious scene to shoot, with actors openly discussing matters that in their real lives they were obliged to keep very quiet about.How far​ were people, gay or straight, prepared to stick ...”