[permalink] [id link]
The British Museum Is Falling Down ( 1965 ) is a comic novel by British author David Lodge about a 25-year-old poverty-stricken student of English literature who, rather than work on his thesis ( entitled " The Structure of Long Sentences in Three Modern English Novels ") in the reading room of the British Museum, is time and again distracted from his work and who gets into all kinds of trouble instead.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
British and Museum
Part of the Bassae Frieze ( from the temple of Apollo Epikurios ) at the British Museum.
From 8 November 2001-24 March 2002, The British Museum had an exhibit named “ Agatha Christie and Archaeology: Mystery in Mesopotamia ”, which presented a fascinating look at the secret life of Agatha Christie and the influences of archaeology in her life and works.
Another version of the standardised imperial portrait ; from the house of Jason Magnus at Cyrene, Libya | Cyrene, North Africa ( British Museum ).
A bronze medal on display in the British Museum shows Agrippina ’ s ashes being brought back to Rome by Caligula.
( British Museum ).
The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.
Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.
In the 1870s Luigi Palma di Cesnola carried out excavations in the necropolis of Amathus, as elsewhere in Cyprus, enriching the early collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; some objects went to the British Museum.
470 BC, British Museum, London
As a matter of fact, the Elgin marbles-after an advise by Canova-were acquired by the British Museum, while plaster copies were sent to Florence, Italy, according to Canova's request.
The Nimrud Lens is held in the British Museum.
British Museum Press, 2002.
In 1924 in the UK the chemist Harold Plenderleith began to work at the British Museum with Dr. Alexander Scott in the newly created Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, thus giving birth to the conservation profession in the UK.
The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.
Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum.
Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.
) 2000 Years of Zinc and Brass London: British Museum
( eds ) Mining and Metal Production Through the Ages London: British Museum
) 2000 Years of Zinc and Brass London: British Museum
British Museum.
In addition, The Verse Account of Nabonidus ( British Museum tablet 38299 ) states, " entrusted the army (?
British Museum, London
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is owned by Frederick Warne and Company, The Tailor of Gloucester by the Tate Gallery and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by the British Museum.
* The Iceni Hoard at the British Museum
British and Is
When I answered it a voice too dignified and British to be real said, `` Is this Mr. Dale Nelson, the actor ''??
American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.
Other British comedies examined the role of the Asian community in British life, including Bhaji on the Beach ( 1993 ), East Is East ( 1999 ), Bend It Like Beckham ( 2002 ), Anita and Me ( 2003 ) and Death at a Funeral.
Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began his success during his 15-year law career with comedy and comedic script writing, before starring in Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Strand produced films for the MOI ; Thomas scripted at least five films in 1942, This Is Colour ( a history of the British dyeing industry ) and New Towns For Old ( on post-war reconstruction ).
The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a cover version of The Troggs ' " Love Is All Around " performed by Wet Wet Wet that remained at number 1 in the British charts for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth ( now twelfth ) biggest selling single of all time in Britain.
After the popularity of game shows hit a nadir in the mid-1990s ( at which point The Price Is Right was the only game show still on daytime network TV ), the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
After British forces successfully recaptured the Falklands, Powell asked Thatcher in the Commons on 17 June, recalling his statement to her of 3 April: " Is the right hon.
Modern Life Is Rubbish peaked at number 15 on the British charts, but failed to break into the US Billboard 200, selling only 19, 000 copies there.
In 2007 he appeared in Flawless, while in 2008 and 2012 he reprised his role as Alfred in Christopher Nolan's critically acclaimed Batman sequels, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises as well as starring in the British drama Is Anybody There ?, which explores the final days of life.
David Lodge's novel The British Museum Is Falling Down ( 1965 ) is a pastiche of works by Joyce, Kafka, and Virginia Woolf.
As far as David Lodge's narrative is concerned, quite a number of elements prevalent in his earlier novels can again be identified: Helen's Catholic upbringing, with her parents still believers in the Catholic faith ( reminiscent of The British Museum Is Falling Down and How Far Can You Go?
* David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down, Changing Places, Nice Work, Thinks ..., and Deaf Sentence
Due in large part to unfavourable UK tax laws for inward investment in the UK film industry, the 1990 ′ s were precarious and witnessed an all-time low in British film production generally, but many large-scale productions such as Tim Burton ’ s Batman Returns and three further Bond films ( GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies & The World Is Not Enough ) kept Pinewood ticking over.
Modern Life Is Rubbish was released in May 1993 and peaked at number 15 on the British charts, but failed to break into the US Billboard 200, selling only 19, 000 copies there.
David Lodge, in the final chapter of The British Museum Is Falling Down, parodies the form.
* Is this Welsh princess the first British woman author?
* Work Is a Four-Letter Word is the title of a 1968 British comedy film.
The first side of the LP was the film soundtrack ( like earlier British Beatles soundtrack albums ), and the second side was a collection of A-side and B-sides released in 1967, with the songs " Penny Lane ", " Baby, You're a Rich Man " and " All You Need Is Love " presented in duophonic, fake " processed " stereo, sound.
Following broadcast on ITV in the UK, Pilger's documentary Palestine Is Still the Issue ( 2002 ) was alleged by complainants including the Israeli embassy, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Conservative Friends of Israel to be inaccurate and biased.
He is best known for his improv and co-production work on the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
By 1989, Stiles had gained the attention of the producers of the British improvisational comedy show, Whose Line Is It Anyway ?.
The British folk punk group The Men They Couldn't Hang wrote and recorded a song about the event called " The Ghosts of Cable Street ," available on their second album " How Green Is The Valley " from 1985 on MCA records and subsequently on their 2004 live cd " Smugglers and Bounty Hunters " released in 2005 on Secret Records.
Parts of both Slaithwaite and Marsden were used to create the village called ' Skelthwaite ' in the British TV show Where the Heart Is.
0.254 seconds.