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08 Mar '22

Jarriere the Mighty! * Mistral -- "Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo. So little time! So much to know!" --Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D.

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08 Mar '22

Found in the Daily Telegraph's Peterborough column: Spaced out JERRY HALL'S co-star [in The Vagina Monologues], Josette Simon, is in less jocular form. When I point out that the programme notes have omitted her best known television role - in the 1980s sci-fi series Blake's Seven - she replies: "You're not going to ask me about that, are you? I am a Shakespearean actress. I have an OBE. It's so annoying when Blake's Seven is the only thing people want to talk about." Sorry. Pat

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by None 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

bow and arrow... >Cally = ( Callow or Callous ) She was very hard, and inexperienced. Another goddess one, I think. Hindu this time, Kali. Susan Beth (susanbeth33(a)mindspring.com)

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08 Mar '22

but I doubt it's followed by Lent (actually, in the episode, it could have been just a synonym for Carnival. Either way, Krantor's complaint suggested a lot of people just didn't get it). Ellynne at least - after all, they ain't going > to > celebrate very convincingly if you keep pumping the drugs into the > cakes and > ale, now are they? > > And in the Outer Worlds, I have a feeling any celebrations they'd > *want* to > have would not be at all to the Powers-That-Be's taste ... > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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08 Mar '22

group think of him - otherwise they wouldn't follow him. This doesn't mean that he has to be nice to them - the "hard man" approach can be just as effective. Possibly, Avon achieves this by accident - he really doesn't care but just finds that the others follow him anyway. On the other hand it may be deliberate. I'm inclined to think that there is at least some element of calculation in how he treats his crew members. For instance, he does seem to have some insight in how to handle Vila. E.g. he is aware how Tarrant's handling of Vila in "City" is a bad idea. So I suppose what I'm saying is that the "Avon doesn't give a damn" viewpoint is misleading. He may well not give a damn on a personal level, but he is surely aware that how he presents himself is important. Best wishes, James

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08 Mar '22

2:15pm Afternoon Play: The Poetry Disease By Alan McDonald, with poems by Char March. A council official finds that his prose is being infected with poetry, his reports are coming out in rhyme, and his boss is beginning to notice. With Steven Pacey, Julia Ford, Ellie Beavan and Jennie Stoller. Directed by Claire Grove. The page is at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/2001/07/20/radio4.html I'm going to have to do more with the Beeb's website, I can see:-) -- Julia Jones "Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." - The Science of Discworld

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by None 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

"A man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection" --from Macauley's review of Moore's Life of Byron. This appears as the epigraph to a story by Executrix called Mad Bad & Dangerous to now, on which Avon and Byron are on rather good terms during their single brief meeting. One of the most famous images of Byron is an 1813 portrait by Westall, BTW. -(Y)

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by None 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

> The memory implantation in the children definitely seem to have happened *after* Blake was arrested: [dialogue snipped]... > All this seems to very strongly imply that the 'assaults' are officially recorded as having taken place *while Blake is in prison*. > > This is obviously nuts. Being in prison is a fairly good alibi re: being out and about molesting children. Even the dimmest Justice Department rep is going to notice this some time before they have to start poking about in Central Records. > > The alternative is that the Administration carefully faked a whole stack of easily discoverable evidence which would allow Varon to discover that Blake was innocent...and then, when he found it, carefully killed him before he could tell anybody. Well, maybe they keep some fake molested children around--like the people who appear on daytime talk shows--and just put in the name of the defendant when they need one. -(Y)

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08 Mar '22

I think this captures most things. Angst. The tension between pragmatism and idealism which I see as pivotal to the text. Cruddiness. Good lines. Boucher worship. Nostalgia. Una

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08 Mar '22

ANNA: This man you're buying the exit visas from ... do you trust him? AVON: [O.O.S.] Trust him? Of course I don't trust him. ANNA: Well then? AVON: [O.O.S.] Trust is only dangerous when you have to rely on it. ANNA: That's very profound, my love. AVON: [O.O.S.] As long as I know I can't trust him there's no problem. ANNA: Do you trust anyone? Do you trust me? AVON: [O.O.S.] Oh, yes. I'm afraid I do. [In the cave.] and there's a passage with Avon and Shrinker a little later. In Blake, there's Tarrant's "it's difficult to tell who you can trust these days," and Blake's "I find it difficult to trust," and the whole tragedy IMO revolves *around* Avon's confusion over exactly how far he trusts Blake and perceived betrayal *of* that trust. Even if the word itself isn't mentioned (I haven't checked them all), I do see it as a major theme in quite a few other episodes, the Cygnus Alpha/Time Squad duo, Bounty, Horizon, Powerplay and Rescue/Power (in which we see trust badly cracked by Terminal) at the least. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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