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I realise the sensible answer is that none of the Tracy boys would have social media for security reasons.
But the idea of the Hood trying to use it to gather intel and it’s just Alan posting Tiktok dances with Gordon and videos of Scott falling in the pool.
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Crushed - Part 2
PART 1
I'm not so mean as to leave Gordon and Lucy aboard Thurnderbird Two without at least making SOMETHING a little bit better.
It had been a week.
Such a long week.
So many surgeries to fix shattered and broken bones, to relieve pressure in both his head and on his spine.
Lucy hadn’t left him except to wash and check in with the rest of the world. It seemed cruel that nothing else stopped when her son that was so full of energy had.
He had said nothing since the revelation of spinal damage aboard Thunderbird Two, since his whispered confession that he hadn’t been able to feel his legs. He had slipped back into sleep and hadn’t woken since.
It was all her fault.
She had sent him out there.
The others insisted that Gordon would have gone regardless, that it wasn’t her fault and once he was awake Gordon would no doubt agree to that fact.
For all she knew they were right, it still hurt.
Hurt to know that Gaat had tricked her so many times. Hurt to know that she had triggered the chain of events that led to that precise moment. Hurt to be able to do nothing except watch her battered and bruised boy and hope that he would wake up.
The doctors were optimistic at least. Apparently time was all he needed, a chance for his body to reset and start the arduous task of healing itself.
Gordon had always hated reading, but adored being read to. It had been the only way to get him to sleep as a toddler, sat in her lap on the bed with a book about something to do with the ocean.
His beloved ocean.
That he himself had written about. His first research paper, published just months before, followed closely by the first in a series of children's books she knew he had planned.
“You always did complain about the lack of ocean books when you were a kid.” She smiled to herself, thumbing the well worn pages of the original copy.
She didn’t expect the whimper in response, the gasped breath as eyes scrunched up.
“Gordy?” She frowned, standing from her seat to lean over him, “Hey, you awake kid?”
A muted groan as her fingers found his and got a squeeze in response.
“Hey,” She smiled, swallowing the lump in her throat as she brushed fingers over the bandages that covered his hair, “You’re okay Gordy. Can you open your eyes for me?”
He hummed softly in response, eyes staying scrunched as he swallowed, hand tightening around hers as he did.
“What hurts?” She prompted, “Shall I get a doc--”
“No.”
Frowning at him, she sighed. It was the first clear thing he had said, but the word had been so full of pain it felt wrong to do as he asked.
“Don’ wanna sleep ‘ny more.”
She was ready to argue a point when amber eyes blinked sleepily open, hazed with drugs as he struggled to focus.
Any argument died on her lips. He was awake.
“Did you get--” Eyes glanced around the room, looking for something Lucy was sure he wouldn’t find.
“In my sash.” He looked back to her, “The chip, Mom, you gotta--”
“Woah,” She caught him gently by the shoulder as he tried to sit up, “Your baldric is at home. It’s okay.”
His hand caught her wrist as he lay back, amber pleading as he watched her.
“I’ll get Virgil to bring it when he comes later. Okay?” She bargained, “Son you need to rest.”
The sigh was heavy from his lips, and she didn’t miss the wince as he did, the hand that had held her wrist going to his ribs.
“We were bein’ crushed,” He whispered, eyes drooping to rest closed again.
She knew what had happened, they had recovered Four and salvaged the camera feeds. She had seen every moment of his ordeal, both in and outside of the cockpit.
It turned her stomach to just think about it.
“Di’n’ think I was gonna get out.”
She didn’t have the heart to tell him that he hadn’t.
“How did I get ou’ Mom?” He frowned, eyes flicking back up to her, the intense amber dark and heavy.
Lucy didn’t have an answer, it wasn’t time for him to know that he hadn’t gotten out and had faced a very real possibility of running out of air before anyone got to him. There was hardly any better answer for him though, when he was quite as bruised and broken as he was no story was quite believable.
“I though’ it was an angel.” He murmured softly, eyes settling shut as a gentle smile spread across his features, “Came an’ got me.”
She smiled as she carded her fingers through his hair sticking out through the bandages, hoping it was enough to soothe him into the sleep he so desperately needed. By so many standards, yes, Penelope was an angel.
That she had stayed afterwards, hovered and waited for any news, had spoken volumes. The flirting perhaps wasn’t quite so meaningless as Lucy had first thought. Maybe, just maybe, the Lady was as interested as Gordon was.
Val was right, they would make a cute couple.
“Dream of angels,” She murmured as Gordon’s face slackened back to the soft set of sleep, “Sleep well kiddo.”
Not that she planned on leaving, she couldn’t even bring herself to let go of his arm.
“Mrs Tracy,” A soft voice broke into her thoughts as she watched the slight rise and fall of his chest.
Lucy straightened, smiling slightly at Gordon’s ‘angel’ as she slipped into the room. Blue eyes looked past her to the boy in the bed, fear and concern filling them as delicate hands tightened on themselves.
“How is he?”
“He woke up.” She admitted with a smile, “You just missed him.”
The way Penelope’s shoulders fell at the news only confirmed what Lucy had thought.
Recovering herself, Penelope nodded, “He’s a fighter and a Tracy. I do not doubt that he will recover.”
Swallowing, Lucy looked back to her, “I never got a chance to thank you, Penelope.”
The younger woman shook her head as she stepped further into the room, “Nonsense Mrs Tracy, it is simply fortunate that we were in the area. I’m just glad we were available.”
“Regardless,” Lucy held her gaze, hoping she could put across her true meaning, “You saved him, for that I will be forever in your debt.”
“Is that not what International Rescue is all about?” Penelope smiled.
Caught out, Lucy could only nod slightly in agreement as she looked back to her son. It seemed that too often in the last few years it was her family that were the ones needing saving.
Penelope sighed as she hovered at the end of the bed, “I came by, as Kyrano wished to see you. I wondered if maybe I could stay here while you spoke to him?”
For all Lucy didn’t want to leave, she knew she needed to speak to Kyrano. Gaat had done this to her boy.
If Penelope stayed, he would be in capable hands.
“Yes,” She nodded as she stood, “but call me if anything changes.”
Her smile was soft as the Lady nodded, “Of course Mrs Tracy.”
Lucy shook her head as she passed the slighter woman, “Call me Lucy.”
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WIP Wednesday
A short preview from an upcoming chapter of Shotgun Wedding, in which Aziraphale & friends are high school faculty in the Boston area and Crowley is a single parent. "Fell! Yah scahf fell on the flooah an' it's gittin' soaked."
No one was sure where Shadwell was from exactly, but he always sounded like an angry double reed instrument and his accent was a nonsensical scavenger hunt of endangered Northeastern phonemes: Long Island, Pittsburgh, Vermont, Yonkers, the Shore, and Newfoundland all took turns with who knew what else. He was a phoneticist's dissertation in waiting. Students had lunchroom contests trying to imitate him. Nobody ever came close.
"Oh! Thank you, Robert," said Aziraphale. He fished for it under the table, and sure enough it was soaking up the muddy puddle their boots made under the booth. He sighed and Anathema shot him a teasing expression of pity. The travails of dry cleaning awaited.
"Why you walways weah white 'n public is beyon' me. Brave mayn, Fell. Brave or foolhahdy." Shadwell dug into his dinner. He was the kind of man to order an American cheeseburger "without any rabbit food on it" at a Mexican restaurant, which was exactly what he'd done tonight.
"He looks good in white, it's his color," insisted Tracy.
"It's ayskin' fah trouble. Like wearin' suede ta Seawoirld."
Tracy had proposed they all dine together before pub quiz this week. Aziraphale had a sinking feeling she'd reinforced the idea with everyone else behind his back, like they'd been summoned to rally around him or some such nonsense after the museum incident. It was downright patronizing. He felt intensely uncomfortable.
But that was no reason to make everyone else uncomfortable. So he tried to keep things light, even as he felt his friends side-eyeing him."Any plans for the long weekend?" he asked the table.
"Newt and I are heading south for a protest," Anathema reported.
"And we got a haunted B&B on the way back," Newt added from behind a staggering mound of nachos.
"Wheya hawunted?" asked Shadwell.
"It's in the woods in Connecticut."
"Nuttin's hawunted in Connittikit! You want hawunted, you go out Western Mass. Or Maine. I know some guys, they know all the witchy spots. Viry ghosty."
"And what does one do at a haunted bed and breakfast that one doesn't do at a mundane bed and breakfast?" asked Aziraphale.
Newt and Anathema shared a look. "Scry," said Anathema.
"Hunt for ghosts," said Newt.
They did not seem to think these answers unusual so Aziraphale swallowed any further questions.
"And whatta you doin' with your extra day off?" Tracy asked Shadwell.
"Reffin’ a college basketball tourney," said Shadwell, but he pronounced it kaarhlidge beyskitbowll towahnie, and all three of his Eastgate colleagues bowed heads in unison to stifle giggles.
"An' you Zira?" Tracy turned to him and tried her best to look innocent. But he knew this was a diagnostic.
"Well, I'll have a lie in -- take a long walk -- there's some essays to finish grading -- and I'm partway through a very good book. You'd enjoy it actually, Robert, Yukon gold rush history and true crime. It’s called The Floor of Heaven."
Shadwell was the senior history teacher at Eastgate. It had actually been called social studies for a long while, or American Studies or World Studies or Civic Systems. Nobody called it history anymore. Nobody but Shadwell.
He and Aziraphale were different as could be, and they argued often, but they tended to agree about pedagogy. They spent their first two years butting heads fiercely, but came to a cease fire when they realized they shared a powerful distaste for standardized testing and administrative meddling.
For over a decade now they'd designed their coursework to overlap whenever they shared students -- sometimes in open defiance of the district, but always with the approval of their academic boards. Aziraphale only had one class of seniors this year but their readings would interleave elegantly with Shadwell's gruff shouty lectures.
"Sounds like a peaceful weekend," Anathema said to Aziraphale, a little too gently. "You're not getting out at all?" A little too pointed.
"I might head over to Cambridge if the weather's decent," Aziraphale mused, although he didn't think he would. "Visit some libraries or the Fogg. But you know me, I'm happiest with a book and a chair. Always have been."
Always will be, he added resignedly. There was a ceiling on that happiness. It was lovely but it was tame. Never too bright or dangerous, never risky. It would never let him down. But it could only lift him so high.
"Waitch out for those Hahvad snaabs," Shadwell ribbed, knowing full well Aziraphale was a dropout. "Our own students crwoss a crick 'n staht thinkin' they poop rubies."
"You should pan the rivah. Maybe they do," said Tracy.
This is from chapter 10 which will post on Saturday, get caught up or subscribe here!
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Why Many Are Now Drawn To Holistic Healing
Learn why holistic recovery is becoming an increasingly popular choice to western medicine.
Joanne Perron, M.D., spent five years practicing medicine in a busy OB/GYN workplace, where the individuals rotated with as if on a production line-- in and also out in 10 mins. 'I was exhausted,' she remembers by phone from her home in Monterey, The golden state. 'By the end of the day, I really felt disconnected and also emphasized. Eventually, I got extremely aggravated as well as disillusioned and also started to ask myself, 'Is that there is?"
Perron needed to encounter that she wasn't the therapist she had actually laid out to end up being. 'Traditional medication is like a religion,' she claims. 'You get indoctrinated at an early age, and afterwards often you begin to doubt your idea system. You begin to ask, 'Why?'-- or, more crucial, 'Why not?"
The doubting began as she realized that the points conventional medication had educated her didn't often treat her people. As well as several of those patients came back to inform her they would certainly gotten much better after attempting different therapies-- for instance, botanical treatments for menopausal symptoms, Chinese natural herbs for uterine bleeding, or acupuncture for discomfort. In Georgia, where she was after that exercising medicine, petition is typically employed in order to help healing as well. 'I really felt there was a void in my expertise. My people were pursuing points I understood absolutely nothing around,' she claims. 'I had discovered all that I could, but I recognized I required to discover more.' Perron reduced her hrs at the workplace as well as began taking yoga classes, in time, she signed up in a 200-hour yoga educator accreditation program.
Perron's patients belong to the expanding group of Americans transforming toward complementary and also natural medicine to cure their ills and enhance their lifestyle. A national survey launched last Might by the National Facility for Complementary and Natural medicine (NCCAM) and the National Center for Health Stats found that 36 percent of UNITED STATE adults utilize corresponding and natural medicine. That number jumps to 62 percent when prayer made use of specifically for health factors is consisted of in the definition. The factors for alternate medication's popularity go past the useful, according to a 1998 Journal of the American Medical Association post authored by John A. Astin, Ph.D., labelled 'Why Clients Use Different Medicine.' Astin composed that individuals looking for alternative medication aren't always dissatisfied with traditional medicine, yet they find 'these healthcare choices to be extra congruent with their very own values, ideas, and philosophical orientations toward wellness as well as life.' It holds true, there has been a considerable evolution in our time towards a much more proactive, all natural sight of health. Conventional medicine has a lopsided sight of the physical, mental, as well as spiritual body,' surmises Andrew Weil, M.D. By currently a cultural symbol with his friendly smile and also big grey beard, Weil has long been willing to handle the clinical mainstream and also supporter exactly what he calls integrative medication. His definition of the term is really simple: healing-oriented medication that considers the entire individual (body, mind, and also spirit), consisting of all elements of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic partnership between customer as well as healer as well as utilizes all proper treatments, both standard as well as alternative.
In 1994, Weil was important in developing the University of Arizona medical college's Program in Integrative Medication, the first detailed, continuing-education fellowship to give doctors the possibility to find out about alternative treatments such as botanicals, acupuncture, Reiki, massage, diet plan, and also reflection-- and how they could be made use of to improve clinical care, protect against ailment, as well as improve lifestyle. However more crucial, this program encourages a thoughtful shift in the technique of the healing arts. 'Instead of simply bringing these treatments in with an emphasis on condition, we're taking a look at the entire body, at way of life, at the partnership between the expert as well as the patient,' Weil discusses. 'Not just is this the sort of medication individuals want, but it has the possible to recover the core values of medicine in an age of handled treatment.'
Perron registered in the College of Arizona's Integrative Medication program specifically to return to a path a lot more straightened with her original objectives for coming to be a medical professional. 'I wished to feel more like I was taking part in recovery,' she explains.
Perron remained in the second graduating class of an associate fellowship program that requires 1,000 hrs certainly work (mostly online) over a two-year duration and also three on-site workshops. Until now, the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medication has ended up 151 doctors that have found out the best ways to integrate the most effective of the East and the West into their medical techniques-- and also right into their very own lives.
Yet, how far have we actually come since Weil began his program, considering there are more compared to 800,000 medical professionals in the country? Medical schools are loath to require an integrative curriculum. Also the University of Arizona medical institution does not require an integrative program, integrative medicine stays an elective. Under these situations, what type of impact can 150 or so physicians make?
Even though some people in the clinical establishment refer patients to therapies like acupuncture or massage therapy, there still exists a bias towards allopathic (that is, conventional) medication. Perron has actually experienced this resistance from medical coworkers that are doubtful of her integrative approach. 'There is this uncertainty that just what I'm attempting to do is also 'woo-woo,' also much out in left field,' she says.
Weil has certainly took on his reasonable share of flak, a few of it virulent. As an example, in a 1998 New Republic post, Weil gadfly Arnold S. Relman, M.D., former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and also teacher emeritus of medicine as well as social medication at Harvard Medical College, believed," Breathing' is a crucial and persisting style in Weil's prescriptions for wellness as well as healing, and it holds a popular place in [ Weil's book] 8 Weeks to Optimum Wellness, which showed up in 1997. As far as I can see, his viewpoints on this subject are largely nonsense.' Relman, apparently unknown with the yogic arts, included, 'In the lack of sustaining proof ... skepticism is certainly in order, specifically considering that idea in much of just what Weil is claiming concerning body and mind, and the ability of consciousness to run in the physical world, requires a rejection of the essential physical legislations upon which our present views of nature and the human body are based.' Weil rejects these remarks as a tirade from 'the quackbuster group. They'll pass from the scene. They're ideologues declaring to be doubters.'
With or without Weil, the medical facility could not neglect the pattern towards integrative medicine, especially taking into consideration the economics. In 1998, Americans invested $23.7 billion on alternative health and wellness care companies, in 1999, they spent $4.4 billion on herbs, up from $2.5 billion in 1995. In addition, the percentage of healthcare facilities supplying complementary and natural medicine has actually increased, from 8 percent in 1998 to 16.7 percent in 2002, inning accordance with the American Healthcare facility Organization. Clinical institutions have taken note: virtually two-thirds currently provide some sort of elective integrative medication curriculum.
Tracy Gaudet, M.D., supervisor of Fight it out College's Facility for Integrative Medicine (she was formerly the executive director of the University of Arizona's integrative medication program), has given herself as well as her cohorts a big charge. 'Our objective is to change the entire strategy to health care in this country,' she describes. 'We realize that it's not nearly using botanicals or obtaining acupuncture. Individuals are stating they desire the entire standard of therapy to change towards an extra aggressive concept. People wish to intend for their health as well as not await something bad to happen. In this way we're checking out the entire range of a person-- mind, body, and spirit, not just the body.'
To that finish, Gaudet and also her coworkers at Duke have created what they're calling a 'prospective' health and wellness care version, one that provides patients with individualized health care preparation and goals making use of a variety of modalities outside the clinical mainstream-- practices and also sources like yoga, mindfulness, reflection, and nourishment. Maybe the most innovative element of the Fight it out design is the principle of a 'health and wellness instructor,' a person educated to encourage actions modification. Initial results from a 10-month pilot research study, provided at an American Heart Association conference in 2014, suggest that participants in the treatment group significantly reduced their risk of developing heart problem. As well as this year, Duke will release outcomes showing that this group worked out extra regularly as well as consumed more healthy meals compared to the control group.
Renée Halberg, a licensed scientific social employee at the Battle each other College Eye Center, registered in the research study to assist take care of tension and also menopausal weight gain. At her consumption interview, she learned that her family members history of adult-onset diabetes and also hypertension, combined with her being overweight, greatly enhanced her danger for those diseases. 'I found out how much I might alter that negative outcome,' she states. 'It was worrying when they provided me with these threat variables expressed in lab results. It was also really motivating.'
The most valuable skill Halberg found out was the ability to change her habits towards the anxiety in her life. 'Like hundreds of various other people, I replaced food for things I lost: I was depressed. I was grieving over not having had a youngster. I underwent a divorce. And I acquired 60 pounds,' she remembers. 'That was terrible, particularly given that I didn't have any type of devices to do anything regarding it.'
The program, particularly the mindfulness and reflection training, aided her locate her self-confidence as well as motivation.
So far, she has actually lost concerning 25 extra pounds and also transformed her diet plan to incorporate whole grains, seeds, veggies, and health foods and also to remove fats and processed carbs. Her high blood pressure went from 150/90 to 120/80, and also her cholesterol levels are stable. The breathwork and also leisure skills are exactly what have helped her the a lot of. 'Whenever I have the impulse to consume something like a sweet bar, I do deep breathing or progressive muscle mass leisure,' she says. 'It takes my mind off it, as well as by the time I'm completed, I shed the wish. I feel focused as well as refreshed, and also I understand I can depend on myself rather than simply reacting to the tensions of the external globe.'
Research like Battle each other College's is vital to impacting change within the clinical establishment. Without it, it's really tough for the clinically minded to approve an extra integrative method to medicine. Fortunately is that funding for alternate treatment research has expanded significantly, owned mostly by the production of the NCCAM. From a first annual spending plan of $2 million in 1993, the center has actually expanded to a projected 2005 budget plan surpassing $121 million, and also today it is moneying groundbreaking research.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Facility in New york city is one of the organizations taking benefit of NCCAM's grant cash. Having actually opened up an integrative medicine center in 1999 both to deal with patients and also to better clinical analysis of corresponding therapies, the research healthcare facility has a number of studies in progress. One is checking out the results of acupuncture on bust cancer cells patients experiencing from chemotherapy-induced hot flashes, another is exploring massage therapy, and a third is discovering whether certain Oriental herbs can minimize or eliminate off tumors. The facility's healing as well as research study job is nicely intertwined and also accessible-- for instance, its Internet site (www.mskcc.org) consists of an 'Concerning Natural herbs' data source of natural herbs, botanicals, vitamins, and supplements that is examined and monitored by an oncology-trained pharmacist as well as a botanicals expert. It gives overviews of study, communication info, as well as damaging results, and mentions the benefits of natural medicine-- overall, a significant resource.
But also the world-renowned cancer facility experienced resistance when it initially opened its integrative center. 'It certainly took child actions,' claims Simone Zappa, the facility's program director. Once the doctors saw that alternate medication was efficient at handling symptoms like pain, queasiness, and also fatigue, however, points got easier. 'I think I could state that we're 90 percent there currently. There are still particular points we have to be aware of. Medical professionals aren't going to take us seriously if we begin chatting concerning chakras and power. Whatever our idea is, we need to maintain credibility in the doctors' eyes.'
Sloan-Kettering's integrative medicine center supplies both in- as well as outpatient care. For people in the medical facility, specialists come to the bedside as well as offer massage, meditation, hypnosis, and also yoga sessions-- at no added charge. Simply 3 blocks away, in a spa-like setup, is the Bendheim Integrative Medicine Facility, Sloan-Kettering's outpatient integrative medication center. Simply inside the entryway is a gurgling water fountain and also soft, relaxing shades. Crystals and also mandala art poise a few of the wall surfaces. Organic tea, fruit, or juice breaks and also discussion take area in a small kitchen location. At this facility, people and also their households could take yoga exercise classes, discover hypnosis or reflection, get a massage therapy, see a nutritionist, receive acupuncture, or take qi gong. 'We are very involved with the family members as well,' Zappa explains. 'Households are typically neglected in cancer circumstances, as well as we desire to provide them reflection, therapy, massage, and anxiety management methods.'
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You're Cellophane!
Not too long ago, I created a Music Man glossary, since that show is so chock-full of period slang and euphemisms. Now, working on Anything Goes, I find the same thing is true. It's part of what make both shows so good -- they create a very real, full world in which these characters exist. And contrary to what a lot of directors and actors think, it is not important for the audience to get every reference; but it is important that the actors get them, so that they can live fully and honestly in this world. That sense of reality is the real value of period references. On the other hand.. In the original Anything Goes, several the lyrics were full of references to people and things that were popular in 1934, many of which we haven't even heard of today. So a lot of the original lyric for "You're the Top" and "Anything Goes" would just be baffling to audiences; and instead of listening to the song, they'd be feeling left behind and confused. Those lyrics had to be revised for the revivals. All that said, for actors and directors working on Anything Goes, and for all musical theatre fangirls and fanboys (of which I am one) who just love the show, here is my Anything Goes glossary. Take a look particularly at the juxtaposition of these pop culture references against each other, in their context. Porter is doing some really subtle, sophisticated social commentary in many of these lyrics. From the original 1934 script: "Manhattan" -- a cocktail made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. While rye is the traditional whiskey of choice, other commonly used whiskeys include Canadian whisky, bourbon, blended whiskey, and Tennessee whiskey, invented in in the early 1870s at the Manhattan Club. "Grosvenor House" -- one of the largest private homes in London, torn down during World War I, and replaced with the luxury Grosvenor House Hotel
"Tommy gun" -- the Thompson submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1918, and became infamous during the Prohibition era. "rote shot" -- a section of the newspaper with society photographs, called the "rotogravure," after the printing process "Evelyn" -- a then common British man's name pronounced EVE-lin. "Snake Eyes Johnson" and Moonface Martin" -- jokes on 1930s gangster nicknames, like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugsy Siegel, Machine Gun Kelly, Lucky Luciano... "dicks" -- law enforcement; a slang term for detectives, originally coined in Canada and brought south by rumrunners during Prohibition. The comic strip character Dick Tracy was named for this term. "a wireless" -- a telegram "Mater" -- British for Mother, from the Latin, an intentionally old-fashioned term "Eight Bells Strike" -- the striking of eight bells on a ship says a four-hour watch shift is over (it's not connected to a specific time on the clock) "my sea legs..." -- a person's ability to keep their balance and not feel seasick when on board a moving ship. "Nicholas Murray Butler" -- a famous American philosopher, diplomat, and educator; president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. "Damn white of him" -- originally used under British colonialism, an expression of appreciation for honorable or gracious behavior, under the assumption that white people were inherently more virtuous. "The Social Register" -- according to Wikipedia, "The social elite was a small closed group. The leadership was well known to the readers of society pages, but in larger cities it was impossible to remember everyone, or to keep track of the new debutantes, the marriages, and the obituaries. The solution was the Social Register, which listed the names and addresses of the families who mingled in the same private clubs, attended the right teas and cotillions, worshipped together at prestige churches, funded the proper charities, lived in exclusive neighborhoods, and sent their daughters to finishing schools and their sons away to prep schools" "Beefeater" -- actually a ceremonial guard at the Tower of London, but here just referring to a British person, possibly also implying that Evelyn is stiff...? "Coliseum" -- the famous amphitheater in Rome, built in 70-80 AD "Louvre Museum" -- the world's largest museum, in Paris, holding some of our great works of art, including the "Mona Lisa." "Symphony by Strauss" -- German composer Richard Strauss was still actively writing operas and concert works when Anything Goes opened.
"Bendel bonnet" -- a ladies' hat from Henri Bendel, the upscale women's specialty store still today based in New York City, selling handbags, jewelry, luxury fashion accessories, home fragrances and gifts "Shakespeare Sonnet" -- Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, fourteen-line poems Mickey Mouse -- you have to remember that for these characters living in 1934, Steamboat Willie premiered only six years ago, and Mickey was still only in black and white... "Vincent Youmans" -- Broadway composer of many musicals, including No, No, Nanette, Hit the Deck, and several Hollywood films "Mahatma Gandhi" -- still in the middle of his historic fight for independence for colonial India from Great Britain at this moment "Napoleon Brandy" -- an "extra old" blend of brandy in which the youngest brandy is stored for at least six years "The National Gallery": Famous art gallery in Washington, D.C. "Garbo's salary" - according to an article on Slate.com, "After the success of Flesh and the Devil (1927), Greta Garbo demanded that MGM raise her salary from $600 per week to $5,000 per week. Louis B. Mayer hemmed and hawed, so Garbo sailed to Sweden. Eventually Mayer gave in and Garbo sailed back. $5,000 per week comes to $260,000 per year, or the equivalent in today's dollars of $4.6 million per year." "cellophane" -- according to Wikipedia, "Whitman's candy company initiated use of cellophane for candy wrapping in the United States in 1912 for their Whitman's Sampler. They remained the largest user of imported cellophane from France until nearly 1924, when DuPont built the first cellophane manufacturing plant in the US. Cellophane saw limited sales in the US at first since while it was waterproof, it was not moisture proof—it held water but was permeable to water vapor. This meant that it was unsuited to packaging products that required moisture proofing. DuPont hired chemist William Hale Charch, who spent three years developing a nitrocellulose lacquer that, when applied to Cellophane, made it moisture proof. Following the introduction of moisture-proof Cellophane in 1927, the material's sales tripled between 1928 and 1930." Our story is set in 1934. "Derby winner" -- the 1934 running of the Kentucky Derby was its 60th! "You're a Brewster body" -- the frame for a Bentley or Rolls Royce luxury car "A Ritz hot toddy" -- a specialty drink of the Ritz Hotel bar in Paris "the sleepy Zuder Zee" -- The Zuiderzee was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands. The characters in Anything Goes know this because in 1928, sailing events for the Amsterdam Summer Olympics were held on the Zuiderzee. "Bishop Manning" -- Episcopal Bishop of St. John the Divine Cathedral in Manhattan. "A Nathan panning" -- a bad review from New York drama critic George Jean Nathan "broccoli" -- something of a novelty in 1934, having been farmed commercially in the US only since the 1920s, and the first advertising campaign on its behalf didn't occur until 1929. So in 1934, broccoli was the culinary cutting edge "a night at Coney" -- Coney Island "Irene Bordoni" -- French actress who starred on Broadway in Cole Porter's 1928 musical Paris, introducing the song "Let's Do It" (which had replaced "Let's Misbehave") "a fol-de-rol" -- a useless ornament or accessory, nonsense
"Arrow collar" -- the famous "Sanforized" collar on Arrow Shirts. The Arrow Collar Man became an advertising symbol in the 1920s for rugged masculinity. "Coolidge dollar" -- the very sound, very strong American dollar, under President Calvin Coolidge, before the Depression "Fred Astaire" -- Broadway and film star of musical comedies "(Eugene) O'Neill" -- Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright of powerful dramas, including Anna Christie (1920), The Emperor Jones (1920), The Hairy Ape (1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), and others "Whistler's Mama" -- the famous painting actually called Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, best known as Whistler's Mother, painted by the American painter James McNeill Whistler in 1871 "Camembert" -- A mellow, soft cheese with a creamy center first marketed in Normandy, France. "Inferno's Dante" -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) author of The Divine Comedy, the third part of which deals with Inferno (Hell). "the great Durante" -- comedian/actor Jimmy Durante. His first film was in 1930, but he had made 19 films by 1934 "de trop" -- a mispronunciation of the French phrase de trop, meaning too much, not wanted, unwelcome "A Waldorf Salad" -- a salad of apples, walnuts, raisins, celery, and mayonnaise, originated at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. "Berlin ballad" -- A romantic song by American songwriter Irvin Berlin, who by 1934 had already written standards like "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "What'll I Do?", "Blue Skies," and "Puttin' on the Ritz." A few years later, in 1938, Berlin would write "God Bless America." "an Old Dutch master" -- a Dutch master painter like Rembrandt, but ALSO a brand of cigars "Mrs. Astor" (changed to "Lady Astor" in 1962) -- Mrs. John Jacob Astor, leading New York socialite. "Pepsodent" -- toothpaste introduced in the USA in 1915 by the Pepsodent Company of Chicago. The original formula for the paste contained pepsin, a digestive agent designed to break down and digest food deposits on the teeth, hence the brand and company name. From 1930 to late 1933 a massive animated neon advertising sign for the toothpaste, featuring a young girl on a swing, hung on West 47th Street in Times Square in New York City.
"the steppes of Russia" -- a region of grasslands joining Europe and Asia -- Around 1930 the Soviet Union wanted to attract foreign tourists to bring in currency and improve its external image. On Stalin's and the Party's initiative a national tourist agency was founded. Intourist was responsible for attracting, accommodating and escorting all foreign guests.Western advertising styles were applied to appeal to the target audience. Intourist posters pictured a tourist paradise, not a country of laborers and peasants. Trains were no icons of progress but a comfortable way of transport. Intourist women were not working hard in a factory but were either fashionable or exotic. "Pants on a Roxy usher" -- the famous Roxy Theatre in Manhattan ("the Cathedral of motion pictures") had a squad of ushers who were trained like an army platoon and wore very tight pants. "G.O.P." -- Grand Old Party, i.e. Republicans. "Tower of Babel" -- Biblical tower in the land of Shinar, the building of which ceased when a confusion of languages took place. "Whitney stable" -- the socially prominent Whitney family bred famous horses "Mrs. Baer's son, Max" (also referred to as "Maxie Bauer") -- Max Baer, World Heavyweight Champion in the 1930s (his son, Max Baer Jr. played Jethro on The Beverly Hillbillies) "Rudy Vallee" -- 1920s/1930s crooner, who often sang through a megaphone and later starred in the original production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. "Phenolax" -- a pink flavored wafer laxative, first introduced in 1908
"Drumstick Lipstick" -- brand of makeup manufactured by Charbert, a French cosmetics firm. "brig" -- military prison "in irons" -- shackled "The Dean boys" -- baseball players and brothers Dizzy and Daffy, members of the famed "Gashouse Gang," the 1934 St. Louis Cardinal baseball team, which won 95 games, the National League pennant, and the 1934 World Series -- just months before Anything Goes opened! "Max Gordon" -- Broadway producer from the 1920s through the 1950, famous for extravagant productions "Jitneys" -- independent taxi cabs or small buses. The joke here is that the middle-class folks who can still afford to take a cab, here in the middle of the Depression, would be shocked to find out that some of the richest Americans (in this case, the Vanderbilt and Whitney families) had lost nearly everything. "Vanderbilts and Whitneys" -- two prominent rich families in New York "Sam Goldwyn" -- movie studio head "Lady Mendl" -- an American actress, interior decorator, author of the influential 1913 book The House in Good Taste, and a prominent figure in New York, Paris, and London society. Her morning exercises were famous, including yoga, standing on her head, and walking on her hands. "Missus R." and "Franklin" -- Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt
"broadcast a bed from Simmons" -- Eleanor Roosevelt did weekly radio broadcasts sponsored by Simmons mattresses "Mrs. Ned McLean" -- a socialite who was the last private owner of the Hope Diamond "Anna Sten" -- Ukrainian movie star "Swannee River" -- a reference to Stephen Foster's famous song "Old Folks at Home" and to the Gerhwin song "Swanee "goose's liver" -- pate "Russian Ballet" -- reference to the 1934–1935 world tour by the Dandré-Levitoff Russian Ballet "the Oxford movement" -- a 19th-century movement of High Church members of the Church of England which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism, arguing for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy and theology. Presumably, Mrs. Wentworth is confusing the Oxford Movement with The Oxford Group was a Christian organization founded in 1931 by the American Christian missionary Frank Buchman. [For the references in "Anything Goes," see my earlier post on that song.] [For the references in "Blow Gabriel, Blow" see my earlier post about that song.] "Sing Sing" and "Joliet" -- famous maximum security prisons [For an explanation of the intro to "Be Like the Bluebird," see my earlier post about that.] Additional Things from the 1962 version: "The Globe American" -- a generic fictitious name for a newspaper "Hymsie Brown, the fighter" -- a fictitious nicknamed boxer "you know the New Deal" -- reference to government red tape, bureaucracy "Toscanini" -- Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini. The New York Philharmonic under Toscanini, in 1931, became the first orchestra to offer regular live coast-to-coast radio broadcasts of its concerts, gaining Toscanini unprecedented fame and a remarkable salary of $110,000 per year. "Milton Berle" -- already a successful stand-up comedian in the 1930s, patterning himself after one of Vaudeville's top comics, Ted Healy (the inspiration for Billy Flynn in Chicago). A year before Anything Goes opened, Berle starred in the short musical film Poppin' the Cork, a topical musical comedy about the repealing of Prohibition. "tomato ketchup" -- During the 1930s Heinz increased their sales force and advertising, to battle the drop in sales due to the Depression. Heinz salesmen were expected to be at least 6ft tall, impeccably dressed and particularly eloquent at promoting Heinz products. Their equipment which included chrome vacuum flasks, pickle forks and olive spears weighed about 30lbs. "Chippendale" -- various styles of furniture fashionable in the late 18th century and named after the English cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale
"Fourth Dimension" -- according to Project Muse, "During the first three decades of the twentieth century, the fourth dimension was a concern common to artists in nearly every major modern movement: Analytical and Synthetic Cubists, Italian Futurists, Russian Futurists, Suprematists, and Constructivists, American modernists in the Stieglitz and Arensberg circles, Dadaists, and members of De Stijl. Kandinsky’s own awareness of the idea, and the growing interest in Germany in the space-time world of Einstein. Although by the end of the 1920s the temporal fourth dimension of Einsteinian Relativity Theory had largely displaced the popular fourth dimension of space in the public mind, one further movement was to explore a fourth spatial dimension: French Surrealism." "George Bernard Shaw" -- British playwright (Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Saint Joan, etc.) "verse" -- Today, we call the first section of a song the intro, which sets up the topic, before we get to the first verse and main melody (though many songs today don't have one). Then we get the first verse, which introduces the main melody, and then in most pop songs, we get the chorus. Sometimes there's a contrasting section called the bridge. But in Porter's time, the first section was the verse, and what we call the verse and chorus were together called the refrain. "Tinpantithesis" -- an invented joke word, meaning the Tin Pan Alley (common) antithesis (opposite) of good music Gullery -- Billy's joke on Mrs. Harcourt "un peu d'amour" -- French for a little love "DAR, PTA, and WPA" -- The Daughters of the Revolution, the Parents-Teachers Association, and the Works Progress Administrtion -- three things that do not belong together, but Mooney doesn't know that... Every day, I find new richness in Anything Goes, new craft, new surprises. It's such diving this deep into a show I've always loved but never thought about that much... Hope you enjoy learning about all this stuff as much as I do! The adventure continues! Long Live the Musical! Scott from The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre http://newlinetheatre.blogspot.com/2018/02/youre-cellophane.html
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This past week’s K-Pop teasing and subsequent comebacks have me in a fine sort of fangirl fit. Between GOT7’s comeback (Oh! Don’t even get me started!) and Monsta X’s week-long barrage of photos and CNBLUE’s sudden jump back into the comeback arena, I can barely breathe!
I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am that CNBLUE is finally making a comeback. It’s been ages since these guys last released anything and though I understand why it had to be that way, I still can’t help but be excited, now that they’re finally coming back. These guys were my first true K-Pop love. If it hadn’t been for Yonghwa’s character in You’re Beautiful, I might have never fallen into this Hallyu Wonderland so, naturally, anytime these guys do anything, I end up being so excited I can barely breathe. Of course these teaser photos aren’t helping with that whole breathing thing…
Nope! Not at all! And the little video teasers that have recently been released, are only making things worse…
Just this little snippet sounds so good! I can’t wait to hear the rest! (I’m weeping, I tell you. Weeping!)
Lucky for me (and all the other BOICE out there), this teasing isn’t going to last too long. CNBLUE plans to drop their 7th mini album, 7ºCN, on March 20 and yes, I am counting down the days!
My only problem with CNBLUE’s comeback schedule is that 7ºCN drops the day before Monsta X’s The Clan 2.5 and well, that’s just a whole lot of excited fangirl emotions to deal with at once! I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to survive two comebacks in a row. I think my heart might explode from all the happy! But maybe I’m not meant to survive them. After all, with teaser photos like these, are any of us really meant to survive?
Someone please tell Shownu to go away! Please! Ugh! I knew these photos were going to invoke all the squealing but honestly, I had no idea it would be this bad. I feel like I’m caught somewhere between a swoon, a sigh, a squeal, a squawk and a dead faint. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry or dance or jump or just fall over. Ugh! Sometimes being a fangirl is so difficult! Even so, I love this life and I can’t wait for “Beautiful” to drop on March 21.
All this squealing over Monsta X has reminded me that Mad Clown has a new track dropping soon. The title itself, “Love Is A Dog From Hell,” would be enough to make me love this track but the teaser makes me think there will be more to this track to love than just its title. This collaboration with Suran (수란) is set to drop March 16 and yes, I’m doing my happy dance!
On the drama side of things, the new trailer for SBS’ upcoming drama, Whisper (귓속말), looks pretty intense!
I’m not sure how I feel about a drama full of legal corruption and moral ambiguity. I’m still rather infuriated by all the corruption I had to endure while watching Missing 9, so whether or not I take on another drama full of corruption has yet to be decided. Whisper doesn’t start airing until March 27, so I guess I have time to calm my rage before then but really, I just don’t know if I’m cut out to watch these sorts of dramas. I always spend an inordinate amount of time yelling at the TV while plotting every characters demise.
Equally intense are these teaser posters for KBS2’s upcoming drama, Mystery Queen (추리의 여왕).
I’m not sure how a housewife who likes mystery novels and a detective get together to solve crimes but I guess if it works, that’s really all that matters. This drama doesn’t start airing until April 5th so we have some time before the trailers start rolling out. Until then, I’m just gonna sit here and admire these posters. They’re so Dick Tracy. I love them!
JTBC’s upcoming drama, Man to Man (맨투맨), has also released some pretty amazing teaser posters and a pretty great trailer as well.
Even though the trailer doesn’t really tell you anything about the drama, it’s so James Bond, I can’t help but love it! Out of all the upcoming dramas, I think this one is the one I’m most interested in, mostly because I can’t wait to see what sort of nonsense Kim Sul Woo (Park Hye Jin, 박해진) gets himself into after hiring Yeo Woon Gwang (Park Seong Woong, 박성웅) as his bodyguard. I really hope this drama lives up to my expectations but since it doesn’t start airing until April 21 I’m going to try to keep my excitement to a minimum. At least for now. There’s nothing worse than building up excitement over a drama that ends up failing you miserably. #LessonsLearnedTheHardWay
Along the lines of lessons learned the hard day, the last in my drama teasing for this week comes in the form of the promo posters for tvN’s upcoming drama, The Liar and His Lover (그녀는 거짓말을 너무 사랑해). I have to admit, as much as I love Lee Hyun Woo (이현우), I’m afraid to put too much excitement into this drama. The expectations that come with an adaptation of a beloved story are usually so high, it’s hard for the remake to live up to them. Unless, of course, you’ve never seen the original; in which case, you’re kinda lucky since you can go into a drama without any preconceived notions or prejudices. Lucky! The original I’m referring to in this case would be the Japanese film, The Liar and His Lover (カノジョは嘘を愛しすぎてる), which was based on the manga by Kotomi Aoki. So many ideals and standards were set with that film, I have to wonder how this drama is going to successfully follow in such mighty footsteps. Will I be giving this drama a try? I honestly don’t know. Comparisons aside, I’m still a bit scarred from watching Lee Hyung Woo in Moorim School. I’m not really sure I can take on another drama just for the sake of a pretty face. I’m sure I’ll probably give this one a try but whether I stick with it remains to be seen.
I’m sure there are more teasers I could be squealing over but HOLY CATS! I feel like I’ve written a freaking novel today so I’m gonna wrap things up here. It’s very obvious I have a lot I’m excited about at the moment, the question is, which comebacks and/or upcoming dramas are you most looking forward to? You know I always love hearing from you so be sure to let me know in the comments below!
TUESDAY’S TEASE: This past week's K-Pop teasing and subsequent comebacks have me in a fine sort of fangirl fit.
#CNBLUE#K-drama#K-pop#Mad Clown#Monsta X#Mystery Queen#photos#teaser#The Liar and His Lover#trailers#Whisper
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Who owns it and why is it Gordon.
#this is true standard tracy nonsense#Alan definitely borrows it#meant to be writing angst#here we are again#thunderbirds are go#standard tracy nonsense#thunderbirds#scott tracy#tracy brothers#gordon tracy#virgil tracy#alan tracy#john tracy#thunderbirds 2015
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I like to think that every time someone mentions how much Scott looks like their father, Gordon loudly answers that it’s because he cloned him in a lab.
#standard Tracy shitposting#thunderbirds#thunderbirds are go#scott tracy#tracy brothers#virgil tracy#gordon tracy#alan tracy#john tracy#jeff tracy#this is true standard tracy nonsense
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Busy trying to write ahead for a fairly serious, heartfelt, many feels scene.
And Busted has come on my headphones.
And now I really want Scott to have to chaperone Alan and Gordon to some terrible teenager-popular concert and be hating life for the entirety of it,
Before singing along on the way home.
This is why I get nothing done.
Edit: because somebody asked, it was Crashed the Wedding.
And the next song was Fireball by Pitbull.
That’s another scene to write entirely.
#thunderbirds#thunderbirds are go#scott tracy#tracy brothers#gordon tracy#Alan Tracy#standard tracy nonsense#this is true standard Tracy nonsense#this is also why my writing is ten hundred documents long
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Some chapters you write to classical music, beautiful pieces with soaring highs and lows to encourage the emotional impact of a scene.
Some you write to the Killers as a faux concert in which Gordon and Penny share a kiss during Mr Brightside and Alan is horrified.
This is high brow fiction, folks. Welcome.
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Chapter 5 has made an appearance!
A much gentler chapter with lots of #standardTracynonsense to give poor Scottie boy a break.
Slightly.
Said I’d do it, and I did.
First chap of Stress Diamonds is up.
Scott Tracy knows devotion - to a father recovering, to brothers that revere him, to a world ready to combust at any given moment.
But he can’t shake the fear that one more oath might be a stretch too far, even for the indomitable Thunderbird One.
Scott-centric, multi-chapter, lots of brothers… all that good stuff.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62265385
#thunderbirds are go#thunderbirds#thunderbirds fic#tracy family#Scott Tracy#Gordon Tracy#Alan Tracy#Virgil Tracy#this is true standard tracy nonsense
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Bonus
I realise the sensible answer is that none of the Tracy boys would have social media for security reasons.
But the idea of the Hood trying to use it to gather intel and it’s just Alan posting Tiktok dances with Gordon and videos of Scott falling in the pool.
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Part 4 of ???
I realise the sensible answer is that none of the Tracy boys would have social media for security reasons.
But the idea of the Hood trying to use it to gather intel and it’s just Alan posting Tiktok dances with Gordon and videos of Scott falling in the pool.
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Part 3 of ??
Gordon senses a business opportunity.
I realise the sensible answer is that none of the Tracy boys would have social media for security reasons.
But the idea of the Hood trying to use it to gather intel and it’s just Alan posting Tiktok dances with Gordon and videos of Scott falling in the pool.
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Oh my GOD I AM SCREAMING.
Gordo why u such a cutie
This is incredible!!
Who owns it and why is it Gordon.
#this is true standard tracy nonsense#standard tracy nonsense#thunderbirds are go#thunderbirds#gordon tracy#thunderbirds fan art#how amazing does he look#we are blessed
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