Our great BBC is bossy, bloated and conceited
The News Review:
- Our great BBC is bossy, bloated and conceited
- Around the A’sosphere: Crosby heckled
- Exhibit A: Returned criminal, accidental deportee
- Plenty of powder at quirky New Mexico ski resorts
- SFGate: Oakland Athletics : The Drumbeat : January 2007
- The view from below
- Susannah Clapp on Happy Days | The Vortex | | guardian.co.uk Arts
Our great BBC is bossy, bloated and conceited
Guardian Unlimited - Jan 28, 2007
But one trait that might be uniquely British is a yearning for serenity and the soil. You don’t find much of that in a Barratt home off the M4. We slap control orders on terrorists, but other home-grown destroyers are rewarded with eye-watering profits. They are called developers. Thank Heavens some of us have moved onFor once, Ian McEwan, was lost for words. The great novelist discovered recently he has a brother, given away as a baby in 1942 after their mother placed this notice in the Reading Mercury: ‘Wanted: home for baby boy, age one month, complete surrender. ‘ It appeared, with novelistic pathos, in the ‘wanted’ column, between ads for old furniture.
Around the A’sosphere: Crosby heckled
San Francisco Chronicle - Jan 28, 2007
Other fans tried to shut the guy up, and Crosby handled it smoothly. Still, could this be the precursor of a rare phenomenon — normally supportive A’s fans turning on a home-grown player?Speaking of Crosby, at. In Part 2, he asks about Crosby. The consensus isn’t terribly optimistic — and not just because of injuries. It’s now or never for him to learn to lay off those outside pitches in the dirt.
Exhibit A: Returned criminal, accidental deportee
Jamaica Gleaner - Jan 28, 2007
But, having little or no criminal history, they return to Jamaica posing little or no danger. There are, however, a small number of deportees for whom the label ‘deportee’ is contextually misleading. These are home-grown, returned criminals, who went up to London or New York as grown, adult men, while remaining well connected back in Jamaica. They do not return dispossessed or uprooted, as do the majority of deportees. Rather, the returned criminal comes back to gang and other networks (sometimes in need of repair) that are predisposed to waste, death and destruction. It's a distinction that Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields seems to agree on. Making this kind of substantive differentiation calls into question any presupposed linear relationship (or "correlation") between an absolute number of deportees and increase in serious crime, as does the currently parliamentary-tabled Ministry of National Security report, ‘A Study on Criminal Deportation’.
Plenty of powder at quirky New Mexico ski resorts
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscripti… - Jan 28, 2007
Welcome to the Sangre de Cristo Range, in the southern Rocky Mountains, home of the country’s most original ski areas. Taos, Angel Fire, Red River and Santa Fe resorts may belong to the same species as their corporate-owned kin in Colorado and California, but they’ve evolved quite differently. Skiing in New Mexico is a home-grown experience, as quirky as Georgia O’Keeffe and as hot as a chile pepper. As for great snow, this season looks to be the best in a decade. Blizzards dumped 3 to 5 feet of powder at the beginning of January, and more is predicted. Looking for an original ski destination? You’ll find it here. Taos Ski ValleyEighteen miles from Taos, Taos Ski Valley is an American classic with an international reputation, a Swiss-style ski village in an alpine-style valley, with historic hotels and haute cuisine.
SFGate: Oakland Athletics : The Drumbeat : January 2007
San Francisco Chronicle - Jan 28, 2007
Other fans tried to shut the guy up, and Crosby handled it smoothly. Still, could this be the precursor of a rare phenomenon — normally supportive A’s fans turning on a home-grown player?Speaking of Crosby, at. In Part 2, he asks about Crosby. The consensus isn’t terribly optimistic — and not just because of injuries. It’s now or never for him to learn to lay off those outside pitches in the dirt.
The view from below
The Observer - Jan 28, 2007
Well, Party Animals isn’t it. But what this new BBC2 drama does offer is an accurate ant’s-eye view of Westminster, as seen by the lowly researchers scurrying around behind the throne. The political big guns - a stern, rather manipulative female Labour minister, and her arrogant, philandering Tory shadow - thus sit on the fringes of the drama. It is also, intriguingly, the first proper post-Cameron drama: the Tories are bouncing with confidence, Labour a little beleaguered, and the differences between the aides on both sides - as the fledgling romance between Tory researcher Ashika and ex-Labour lobbyist Scott suggests - are blurring, just like their masters’ policies.
Susannah Clapp on Happy Days | The Vortex | | guardian.co.uk Arts
The Observer - Jan 28, 2007
Out of sight for most of the non-action, her husband Willie grovels around, alternately disdained and patronised: ‘It’s not easy crawling backwards, but it is rewarding in the end,’ Winnie coos to him. Tom Pye’s design is an apocalyptic ruin: Winnie pokes out of a giant heap of rubble; behind her, a desert stretches to infinity. When her parasol goes up in flames, it is no mere sizzle, no music hall joke, but a fireball that whizzes from above as if a nuclear weapon were being tested. Shaw finds a way of rising to this which suits her febrile style. Behind her, Tim Potter’s apt, croaky Willie, leaking unwelcome fluids from every orifice, begins to look like some dreadful part of her own body that she’s forgotten… Actually, it’s obtrusively so. Jo Coombes’s lively revival, in a black-and-white whirligig design by Lez Brotherston, has frisson casting. Coward originally took the part of a young musician, petted son of a giddy society hostess, who returns damaged, and drug-addicted, from debauchery in Paris (Coward’s patriotism presumably obliged him to show that the infection wasn’t home-grown). Now Will Young, who knows what it is be a musical talent and to be Idolised, takes the role. He’s graceful and likable and easily puts across adorability. But he doesn’t have the effortlessness on stage that he’s shown on screen - he was the surprise talent in Mrs Henderson Presents. His wheeze for showing he’s not all he seems is to become startlingly camp: he flounces, pouts and floppy-limbs across the stage, which makes sense of his over-closeness to his mother, but makes the announcement of his engagement risible.