Virginia Plain Plain" from one of his own paintings, featuring an image of cigarette packaging - "Virginia Plain" is a variety of cigarette tobacco. Ferry later said in an interview: It was a watercolor or a painting on paper. It was just like a surreal drawing of a giant cigarette packet, with a pin-up girl on it. I liked that phrase Virginia Plain…so it later became the title of the first single I put out with Roxy Music – with a slightly imponderable lyric... The name "Robert E. Lee" refers to music industry lawyer Robert Lee, practising at London law firm Harbottle
Plain English a slim paperback "Plain Words, a guide to the use of English" in 1948, followed by a sequel "The ABC of Plain Words" in 1951, and a hardback book combining the best of both, "The Complete Plain Words", in 1954 – which has never been out of print since. Gowers argued that legal English was a special case, saying that legal drafting: However, there is a trend toward plainer language in legal documents, and the 1999 "Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts" regulations mandate "plain and intelligible" language. In the UK, Plain English Campaign has been campaigning since 1979 "against gobbledygook,