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What riddle may be solved by the expression of a gene, or a problem be resolved through an existential scene? Conditions existential are the metaphors of chance, and natural selection an analogy for dance. For every time a child is born, or seed grows into plant, the trick that lies behind your eyes, elusive as an ant becomes an abstract metaphor for nature's vital force the software of the embryo takes evolution's course - a seed in tiny miniature - the miracle of man - and tightly packed within the egg - life's grand genetic plan! |
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Wide, shelving sands, pale mounds. Yellow horned poppies fringe the edges. Do not pick them. The beach, tractor-cleared, boasts a row of rainbow- coloured beach-huts, hard, rippled ribs of sand - a surfer's beach. If you collect the shells, first make sure they are dead. A narrow strip of marram-covered dunes backs the sand shelves facing the Atlantic rollers. Replace large stones where you find them. Do not interfere with intertidal plants. Go barefoot if you must but be wary of broken glass. Obey the bathing- water monitoring notice. Do not deface the poster: 'No dredging for scallops' Do not use the rocks as a playground. Take your rubbish home with you. Leave as few marks of your presence as you can. |
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A story linked by flashbacks endless breaks in continuity shadowy half-flickering shapes sharp angles of light piercing together of action in dark, filmic sequences. Fragmentary frames cuts of coincidence shots of menace linked by a laconic offscreen voice. Femme fatale cynical detective desperate war veteran bound together in a captious cast each wearing its own sublunar prison mask sinister shadow-face moulded in moments like a blue dahlia by the suspension of disbelief. |
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They filed in: mostly older people, a few youngsters. Some had lost sense of dolly grip or exciter lamp, but they came. Edward debated over chase movie, Chaplins or cliffhanger - finally settling for archives newsreel, then Buster Keaton. He had got the films by mail order - Columbia, Paramount wouldn't touch him. At eighteen frames per sec the projector rattled, black-and-white images flickered with illusory motion. Preferred to colour - authentic texture, period flavour. Patrons sat through silent serials in specially converted barn next to his rambling country house. Costume props, cane and derby rejuvenated memories of the greats, old stars of the penny gaffe. When an old steam train came rushing straight out of the screen in anamorphic vision, Edward was thrilled to see someone jump from their seat startled. The magic factory had worked its wonder. There were a few technical hitches: hank of hair stuck in projector gate, buckle switch shutdown when fim became loose - it all added to the atmosphere. This was the real thing. Vintage movies. He had his captive audience and, in real time, he would collect the grannies. |
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Warmth of St Ives harbour. The lip of the night-tide has slipped its moonlit moorings. Painters and hawsers dance in patterns of sunlight on water. Little white houses, granite cliffs wrinkle with texture. Iconic modernism: Hepworth, Hilton, Lanyon - art glitter like chevrons. Crescents oblate 'like the white sun's spinning on the top of a copse' Paintings are variegated mappings whose sensuous rythms swirl with coalescent movement. Exposed to sea-currents, calligraphic, mobile tides of memory. * Title of a book by Tom Cross |
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Bottle of Bordeaux Pungent smell of onions Local, lush tomatoes Rustic loaves Convienient knife From this tableau-vivant Still life Sunlight of Provence Cascading on Ripe, red tomatoes. |
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Get out that cycle - let's have some fun as 'Easy Fun Rides' kick off in the sun dust off that bike you left in the shed get out your cycle - you sleepy head! There's 'Picnic 'n' Park', 'Special Needs Day' 'Human Powered Festival' - that sounds okay Meet fellow cyclists - try out new tricks but follow the safety code - don't be too slick The Duchess of Rutland takes kids for a spin - if you've a Brox Compact then you're really in Then there's 'Castle Capers' - such modern designs but always be careful to watch cycle signs And in Abbey Park there'll be 'Come and Try' In Tandem with Loughborough - hope it keeps dry the fun-factors great and the gearing is too Our summer of cycling should last all year through! |
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Like Cy Twombly wobbling in lemon lamplight sea-hawk on lichen-covered stones. Algaed patios cornflower-blue verandahs and mottled effects. In empyrean silence cobalt violets reflect Celtic citrons impure turning to green. A touch of black contaminates yellow. The image is an irony of violets and vermilion. Wobbly hard edge abstract figuration. |
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