And this positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms. In all my time in this wretched Godforsaken country, the one thing that has appalled me most of all is this this preposterous preoccupation with bosoms. Don't you realize they have become the dominant theme in American culture: in literature, advertising and all fields of entertainment and everything.
I like the start of the conversation when Finch tells Hawthorne that the whole phony British race is finished, and that Lend Lease has kept the island afloat. That pisses Hawthorne off and leads to the "bosom" rant, and later to the fist fight between two old farts.
Thank you, Herrmann Goering.
shareI just never could figure out what exactly was wrong with Hawthorne's Jeep. Why exactly was he "10 feet over the line," as Berle noted, right before their crash because he couldn't keep it on the road? Alignment from the near-crash caused by Mrs. Marcus?
shareThe funniest thing about Hawthorne's rant is that very soon, Britain would produce a man named Benny Hill. And up until that point the USA had never had such a preoccupation with bosoms such as Benny Hill's.
"'Extremely High Voltage.' Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer Sim--" - Frank Grimes
Seriously - do a Google image search for 'British seaside postcards' for some 'reserved' British humor.
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