Beyond the Fringe of musical items in the show, using Dudley Moore's music, most famously an arrangement of the Colonel Bogey March which resists Moore's repeated attempts to bring it to an end. The show prefigured the Satire Boom of the 1960s. Without it, there might not have been either "That Was the Week That Was" or "Private Eye", the satirical magazine which originated at the same time, that partially survived due to financial support from Peter Cook, and that served as the model for the later American "Spy Magazine". Cook and Moore formed a comedy team and appeared in the popular television
Things: A Story of the Sixties Things: A Story of the Sixties Things (French Les Choses) is a 1965 novel by Georges Perec, his first. The novel met with popular and critical success and won the Prix Renaudot in 1965. An authoritative English translation was published in a shared volume with "A Man Asleep". Recent French paperback editions, and the English translation, bear the subtitle "A Story of the Sixties" (fr. "Une histoire des années soixante"), though the original French edition did not. The characters in the novel do not hold as much textual importance as the things ("les choses") meticulously described throughout, which are the