An unnamed senior staff member recalls a meeting in which Pincus is alleged to have raged: "I don't fucking want innovation.
Thirty minutes later, while the storm still raged, I was warm, dry, well fed, with a mug of coffee in one hand and a glass of whisky in the other.
"You saucy, impertinent rascal," he raged, "I wonder how such a little scoundrel dared take a wig out of my dressing room?" It seems that Macklin intended only to administer an admonitory poke in the eye with his cane.
Prior to the decision to go to war being made – in the months the debates raged – I did the only thing I knew how which was to put my frustrations into a new piece.
But there is one story she has not told until now, despite her mother's colourful prompting: "Why are you still nibbling from other people's dishes?" As the older woman raged, "I don't think I can bear keeping my story to myself any more", the younger woman softened.
Williams raged, "I want my money back," over a thundering drumbeat and a synthesizer screaming like a teakettle.
