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From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: GENIUS:Life/Science of Richard Feynman
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:52:11 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1dpvuaINNrh7@agate.berkeley.edu> peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz) writes:
~Recently finished this new biography of Richard Feynman, late theoretical
~physicist and all around neat guy. While I basically liked it (who couldn't?
~it's about Feynman's life), I was disappointed by the meaningful neglect of
~material in SURELY YOU'RE JOKING and WHAT DO YOU CARE.
.
.
.
~                                                    ... I dunno... I can't
~really fault Gleick, but I can't say I loved the book, and considering the
~topic, I feel I should have.

Aaah! So I'm not the only person in the world who felt slightly let down by
"Genius". I felt I learned a lot about Feynman's contribution to quantum
physics, and very little about Feynman "the man". For example, his sense of
loss at Arline's death is claimed to have been a profound influence, but 
we're told very little about their relationship. Very possibly there isn't
much material for a biographer to work with - that's *his* problem!
Similarly, what sort of person was Gwynneth? Where did they go together?
Where did RPF go on his South American travels?? I was hoping for more
"biography" and less "popular science" - maybe the problem is in my
expectations, rather than the book itself.

Incidentally, I found myself curious to learn more about Freeman Dyson. Any
biographies about him?





-- 
===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=          

"I have to scan these posts in case Jeremy includes some line
out of context in his .sig" - FriendOfFernandoKhomeini.
Xref: sparky rec.arts.books:20073 rec.arts.poems:11344
From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: couple of questions - thanks!
Date: 13 Nov 1992 18:22:32 GMT
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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Lionel Tun writes:

	Thank you to all who offered suggestions on my questions.
	I had a good idea about the Shakespeare (`though this be
	madness, yet there is method in't`:"Hamlet") and the Elliot
	("The Wasteland"), but I was not sure about the Wordsworth
	(`A host, of golden daffodils':"I Wandered Lonely As A
	Cloud".

Authorship is a funny thing. You might wish to consider the role of
Ezra Pound in THE WASTELAND (check out the annotated, variorum edition)
and Dorothy Wordsworth's contribution to I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD
(*Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth* OUP).

							Fido
From: br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A. Del Col)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Tsvetaeva-Akhmatova-maybe Tsvetaeva?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 13:33:51 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A. Del Col)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


As two participants have pointed out, the remark about the rubbishy roots
of poetry that I attributed to Tsvetaeva occurs in a poem by Akhmatova that
was dedicated to the memory of Tsvetaeva.

However, I have a recollection of seeing that remark in one of Tsvetaeva's
letters.  I will have to get that volume and check.  Perhaps Akhmatova was
quoting?

At any rate, thanks for the correction.  Just to add to the discussion,
W.B. Yeats concludes his poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion" by saying that
he must return to the source of poetry-- "the foul rag-and-bone shop of the 
heart."

J. Del Col
-- 
Jeff Del Col      *   "Cats are loners, and the paths they take in prose      
A-B College       *    belong to them alone."   --Jacques Roubaud--
Philippi, WV      *                             LA BELLE HORTENSE
                  *         
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 1992 21:49:59 -0500 
From: "Kevin J. Chen" <kc2w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: BTAS : Voices (Was: Grey Ghost)
	<1992Nov5.141338.15661@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Distribution: rec.arts.animation

>Adam West was listed in the credits as the voice of the Grey Ghost.  It
>seems to me that a lot of well known people are "doing voices" for BTAS.

Is it just me, or is there a frightening predominance of actors from
LA Law doing BTAS voices?  We've already seen Diana Muldaur, Alan
Rachins, and (from Wednesday) Richard Dysart.  Sheesh.  

BTW, one of the voice credits (I think it was Mr. Freeze) was given as
Michael Ansara.  Why does that name sound familiar?

Kevin.
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Battle Of The Planets/Gatchaman
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:17:09 GMT

The Whirlwind Pyramid was one of the bigger Science Ninja techniques used by 
the team.  It had a nice symmetry, what with both the vehicles and the 
individuals have the ability to pool power in a gestalt (Fiery Phoenix, 
Whirlwind Pyramid).
     Also, as pointed out in previous post, Zoltar was really hermaphroditic, 
changing sex at random (later at will).  The only part of this that translated 
to the American version was the sneaking suspicion that Zoltar was really 
female (the long blonde hair, crimson lips, etc...).
     Dave Van Domelen, "Bob es transsexual" - Bob Wheeler, Night Court
From: f175007@wilma.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: BTAS: Synopses
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:49:30 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

Some of us are too busy to catch the show and personally I don't mind reading
spoilers.  I was wondering if someone could include a description of an episode
whenever they post a review (with spoiler warnings, of course).  Thanks

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Joseph C. Ampon
University of California at Davis
ez002563@dino.ucdavis.edu

"Men want to be a girl's first love.  Women want to be a man's last romance."
     -unknown
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From: ee152fbw@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Itoyoko)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: X-men TV show
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:48:58 GMT

Hi, if anyone  good copies of the first two episodes of X-men, please drop
a letter, I'm willing to any anime or other material for it.

IY
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From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: BTAS:  Poison Ivy and Catwoman ...
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 01:44:00 GMT



Are Poison Ivy and Catwoman played by the same person, by any chance?

Firestar
-- 
I don't bite, you know.    | Find me and turn thy | It is better to have loved 
Unless it's called for.    | back on heaven.      | and lost than to have your
-- Audrey Hepburn, Charade | -- R. W. Emerson     | finger caught in a blender.
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From: walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: Saturday morning (Was :Galaxy Trio/BirdMan)
Organization: The Claremont Graduate School
Date: 7 Nov 92 12:56:12 PST

In article <1992Nov7.172131.16911@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows) writes:
> 
> I liked Thundarr, but the very first cartoon I can remember watching
> was called Godzilla.  I can still remember part of the theme: "Up
> from the depths, 30 stories high..."  I must have been all of 3 when
> it was on, but I can remember that I adored that show.  How come they
> never syndicated it?
> 
Didn't the same company make a show about King Kong?  If I remember right,
there was this family that was constantly getting in trouble and
summoning King Kong to help them.  Or am I imagining the whole thing?
Nah...I remember part of the theme song.
"King Kong, you know the name of 
King Kong, ten times as big as a maaaaaan..."

> --
> Chris Meadows // CHM173S@SMSVMA // CMEADOWS@NYX.CS.DU.EDU
>    "If blood be the price of admiralty, then I've just bought me 
>     a naval commission."  -- Corwin, SIGN OF THE UNICORN, Roger Zelazny
> 
Joe Walker
walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu

Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,rec.arts.disney
From: walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: BTAS: two DYN's
Organization: The Claremont Graduate School
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:34:43 PST

In article <SS.92Nov6074903@wpi.WPI.EDU>, ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter) writes:
>>>>>> On 6 Nov 92 05:10:29 GMT, rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang) said:
> 
> rang> In article <1992Nov5.162057.1@cgsvax.claremont.edu> walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu writes:
>>In "Dreams in Darkness," the doctor in charge of Arkham refers to the
>>Joker as "Jack Napier."  I guess this means they're using the movie
>>origin of the Joker.  Frankly, I prefer the comics version in which
>>the Joker's real name and history are unknown (and hopefully always
>>will be).  It adds to his horror if he's "the man from nowhere."
>>Anybody prefer the Napier
>>story?
> 
> rang> Urm.  The Jack Napier origin was used in "The Killing Joke" (a
> rang> devestatingly good read IMHO), so I don't consider it
> rang> necessarily from the movie.  Read it and feel sorry for a very
> rang> much human Joker.
> 
> The Killing Joke origin, and movie origin are TOTALLY different. And
> the name Jack Napier, or any name for that matter, was never used in
> Killing Joke. The only thing that was the same, was when Joker fell
> into the chemicals. That's it...

And just to clear this up further: "The Killing Joke" is NOT the Joker's
origin, just a possible origin.  The Joker himself, in the sourse of the
book, says that he can no longer be sure what the truth is.  The Joker's
true story before he bacame the Red Hood is unknown, at least in the comics.
The name Jack Napier has *only* appeared in the movie, and now the animated
series.
Joe Walker
walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu

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From: mwdenney@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Michael W. Denney)
Subject: Grinch (was Re: X-Mas TV )
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:02:57 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.200522.17495@bnr.ca> gal@bnr.ca (Gene Lavergne) writes:
>
>Well the show, without commercials, on the laserdisc version lasts
>about 24 minutes.  Aren't there more than 6 minutes worth of 
>commercials in a half-hour of network programming?  It is possible
>they did just that.  I vaguely remember there were extensive credits 
>at the beginning.

Unfortunately when they cut up the 'Grinch' what they delete is many of the
scenes where he is stealing toys, presents, and decorations (winding up toys
so they march into a bag, playing pool with the christmas balls, etc.).  These
shots aren't *really* necessary for the storyline and it is easy to cut out
a verse of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" without the kiddies noticing.  I  
can remember watching the complete version on tv when I was young so why is
it cut now?  There are commericials after the opening title, before the end
credits, and at least twice during the cartoon.  This is only a half-hour
show!  If the old "two and two" thing is correct (and I'd be amazed) that's
at least 8 minutes and 8 seconds of commericials.         

Michael
 a.k.a. The Phantom Scribbler

 - Then the Grinch got an idea,
 - An *awful* idea.
 - The Grinch got a *wonderful* awful idea!

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From: dunk@carson.u.washington.edu (John Dunkelburg)
Subject: Robotech flame wars cont.
Summary: Robotech might be bad, but what's worse?
Keywords: Robotech
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:28:38 GMT

In my original posting, I was trying to say that Robotech (or
Robodrek, as some of you anime purists out there seem to
be calling it) is what got anime noticed by more people than
those who formed what once were just little cliques.   I know
it caught MY attention as far as the wider world of anime
is concerned.   As far as the ideas that Mr. Macek used to bind
the three unrelated anime shows into one large show, I admit
that some of them are a bit far-fetched (I have to admit, when
I first heard of protoculture, I couldn't figure out what it
was, either.   Maybe it refers to the population who hasn't
been exposed to anime.), but he did manage to create what had
never previously existed in American t.v. land: A realistic,
animated series that for the first time showed death and war
in anything other than a light 'bugs bunny' way.   In other
words, an animated show that wasn't comedy, had a different
look to it (different than WB and LT), and had a cast of
characters that looked like they actually followed most of
the laws of physics and causality (a person who fell hundreds
of feet didnot just get up and walk away, compressed like an
accordion, unlike Bugs and co.).   Admittedly, some of the
laws of physics are circumvented (a space fold, for instance,
is not what you would call everyday physics.), but for the 
most part, it is a realistic series.
	Be that as it may be, Robotech hooked a lot of new
people into the world of anime, and showed that all
animation is not Bugs Bunny.   You might not enjoy RT, but
many people do, and in fact it is still going strong in
other forms, mainly in comic books.   Maybe it does seem a
bit childish, but nontheless, it does survive.   How do
you account for that?

If anyone hears *anything* about a possible ElfQuest animated
project, please let me know, either through e-mail, or on
this net.   Thank You.
********************************************************************************John Dunkelburg, a.k.a. no a.k.a.
My life isn't a soap opera, it's ANIME!.
"I only believe in my own power.   Nothing else makes any sense."
                Zakath of Mallorea
DUNK@max.u.washington.edu
********************************************************************************
From: hodge@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Galaxy Trio/BirdMan
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:47:16 EST

In article <40430@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
> So, I just finished moving about 35 miles, and I find to my surprise
> that my new cable company carries the Cartoon Network. Joy!
> 
> So I'm watching it, and there's this amazingly wretched thing called
> "The Galaxy Trio" (which consists of Meteor Man, Vapor Man, and
> Gravity Girl), interspersed with "BirdMan". These things are the
> absolute lowest common denominator. Bad animation, absurd plots,
> horrible voicework ("Yes. But you reckoned without my Thermal
> Ray."), just awful.
> 
> I love it.
> 
> It was produced by Hanna & Barbera back a long time ago. Aieee!
> 
   [...]

 Another of these HB monstrosities leaps immediately to mind:
SUPER-PRESIDENT!
 He is president of the US, and a flying, crook-stomping, superhero!
If they put that on the Cartoon Network, you know they will show anything.

++++  Bob Hodge  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+  I'm looking for Jim Meerbot! Please email me if you know him!   +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Subject: Re: BTAS: two DYN's
Organization: MegaCorp Central Complex
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:00:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.162057.1@cgsvax.claremont.edu> walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu writes:
>
>In "Dreams in Darkness," the doctor in charge of Arkham refers to the
>Joker as "Jack Napier."  I guess this means they're using the movie origin
>of the Joker.  Frankly, I prefer the comics version in which the Joker's
>real name and history are unknown (and hopefully always will be).  It adds
>to his horror if he's "the man from nowhere."  Anybody prefer the Napier
>story?

Not I.  In the movie, I especially hated how it turned out to be Napier
who killed Bruce's parents.  Too pat, too Hollywood.  Joe Chill was a much
better idea, since he was essentially a small-time hood. 


-- 
Emru Townsend     BIX: switch     emru@cam.org     Fido: 1:167/133
When you aren't looking at it, this .sig is in Spanish.
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From: joshm@crash.cts.com (Josh Mercer)
Subject: Re: Robotech: Love it, Leave it, or Get out of the Way.
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 5 Nov 92 06:25:44 GMT
Keywords: Robotech 2 argument

At the risk of continuing this oft-appearing flame war...

The first "translated" anime show I watched was Star Blazers.  Loved it.
Was serialized, characters grew, fell in love, died.  Eventually
it went off the air, like all syndicated cartoons.  After that came
Battle of the Planets.  Being a kid still, I liked it well enough. Not as 
much as Star Blazers, though.

Then came Voltron.  By that time I'd recognized the "Japanese style" of
the animation, like Star Blazers was (By the era of Voltron I was about 
thirteen I guess).  Again, it wasn't as good as SB but still far better
than BoTP.  I got into it, followed it until it went away.

And then came Robotech.  Here was a show that everything that Star Blazers
was to me: an epic, with mature characters, a serialized structure and
death. Wholesale death.  By the time of my first viewing of "Force of
Arms" I knew this was a great show. An episode as great as my memories of
the Argo fighting the Comet Empire, while the immortal Captain Gideon died
on the Andromeda.  I was FULLY a Robotechie.  

And from there, I went to the local (now-EX) c/fo chapter when I heard
about it, since I wanted to see more things that were like Robotech and
I didn't especially care if they were in English or not.  At the time
I still didn't know Robotech's origins, or what liberties were taken with
Macross, Southern Cross, or Mospeada.

Eventually, I learned how everything fit together, between Robotech, 
the original Japanese series that comprised it, Robotech The Movie, Macross
the movie, and the ill-fated Sentinels.  Now I'm an anime fan, though 
I seem to like fewer shows than many other anime fans do.  But just because
Robotech WAS a hatchet job (though hardly on the level of say, BoTP) doesn't
mean I feel the need to bash it endlessly and those who still like it--
partly because I still do.  I don't even pretened to think that Robotech
is a pure translation or even especially well done anymore, but I _do_  
still enjoy it for its merits: it was a good, entertaining show that
got me into anime.  And that's that.  Come on, anime fans.  Robotech got
a lot of you into anime too.  For what it was, a show on AMERICAN tv 
(not Japanese tv, guys...try to remember that) in a timeslot meant for
CHILDREN that showed you what "good" (or, at least, complex) storytelling
could be achieved with animation, it deserves better than to be treated
as the spawn of hell that single-handedly "ruined" anime for people.  It
did more for anime than virtually any TV show shown here.  It grew anime
fandom a thousand-fold.

It's not perfect.  Neither is Ranma, or Urusei Yatsura, or Akira or
Gundam.  Lots of people will always have a soft spot for it, no matter
how many times someone goes off on another "God, Robotech sucks!" rant.  

My point, after all these ramblings: You wouldn't like it if people 
endlessly picked on something that you liked.  Robotech fans deserve the
same courtesy.

Thanks.
From: ss@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Anyone have any Batman-TAS gifs?
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:45:39
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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In-reply-to: lutz@shredder.raleigh.ibm.com's message of Fri, 06 Nov 92 19:13:00 GMT

>>>>> On Fri, 06 Nov 92 19:13:00 GMT, lutz@shredder.raleigh.ibm.com (Dave Lutz) said:

lutz> News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14l by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers

lutz> The subject line says it all.  This is one of the best offerings
lutz> on TV today and I'd *really* like to use a Batman GIF as my
lutz> desktop background. 

There was a GIF posted to alt.binaries.pictures.misc a week of 2 back,
of Batman: TAS. Batman swinging toward you.

--
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: BTAS: Almost Got 'Im
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:06:50 GMT

Oh yeah, one more comment... Arkham Asylum really needs to take a
serious, serious look at its security.
-- 
"Have you lived here all your life?"  "Oh, twice that long."
From: rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Subject: Re: BTAS: two DYN's
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Reply-To: rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:10:29 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.162057.1@cgsvax.claremont.edu> walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu writes:
>In "Dreams in Darkness," the doctor in charge of Arkham refers to the
>Joker as "Jack Napier."  I guess this means they're using the movie origin
>of the Joker.  Frankly, I prefer the comics version in which the Joker's
>real name and history are unknown (and hopefully always will be).  It adds
>to his horror if he's "the man from nowhere."  Anybody prefer the Napier
>story?

Urm.  The Jack Napier origin was used in "The Killing Joke"
(a devestatingly good read IMHO), so I don't consider it necessarily
from the movie.  Read it and feel sorry for a very much human Joker.

                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.
From: dnd@ee.man.ac.uk (Darryl Davis (RA))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Russian Shakespeare
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:05:56 GMT
Reply-To: dnd@spec0.ee.man.ac.uk (Darryl Davis (RA))
Organization: Dept Electrical and Electronic Eng, Manchester University, UK

This may interest you unfortunates living in the colonies.
BBC TV (Wales) in conjunction with the RSC and russian animators
have done 6 30minute (actually 26+credits) cartoons, puppet and
chalk on glass (backlit) animations.
They are being screened in the UK on BBC2 (mondays 19:30)
This week was Midsummer Nights Dream (cartoon - cell technique)
next week is The tempest (puppet still animation)
to come are: 
	Macbeth
	Hamlett
	Romeo & Juliet
	i not sure about about the sixth (Falstaff?)
The animators are easily identfiable in style in you've watched a lot of the
east europaean animations (which is regularly screened on BBC2 and Channel 4
in the UK)

I am videoing the lot anyway.

While i am at it:
Gerry Anderson: Stingray and Thunderbirds are being screened presently.
Not sure if they are going to do Captain Scarlet, and i think Supercar
and Fireball XL5 ("On our way home") are lost to history.


dr doom the optimist


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From: cg533@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Eugene Alloway)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Old Animation Magizines wanted
Date: 13 Nov 1992 14:20:55 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I am interested in back issues of the magazine ANIMATION.  I am aware of the 
cost of old issues from them, and I am hoping to get them cheaper from
the net.
    Gene Alloway
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