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- From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
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- Subject: Re: Ace? More like deuce... here's a new slant
- Keywords: Peri
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 05:39:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.175103.18475@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1992Nov13.220639.12628@wam.umd.edu> <Bxv6BB.D57@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <Bxv6BB.D57@acsu.buffalo.edu> v115p8d6@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (she listens like her head's on fire..) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.220639.12628@wam.umd.edu>, jblum@next00clab.wam.umd.edu (The Maven) writes...
- >>In article <1992Nov13.175103.18475@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- >>as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
- >stuff deleted>
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- >>Well, I'd say that for most of the American viewers of the show,
- >>working-class Perivale is almost as alien as Traken.
- >
- >will someone explain this statement??
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- Just that, for most comfortable suburban viewers of the show (I remember
- reading that most American Whovians are middle- or upper-class -- the
- kind with disposable income, that's why PBS loves us so much), life on
- the lower end of the economic spectrum (like in Perivale, which isn't
- a slum by any means, but not Beverly Hills either) is almost as much of
- a stretch to empathize with as a pseudo-Elizabethan fantasy world.
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- Most of us have only experienced either of them through TV, or through
- the (rolled-up) windows of our cars as we drive through the inner cities.
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