... take offence at your implication," said McKay. "I may not have marched around with a sword in my hand, hacking at the French like a butcher's apprentice, but I wasn't wholly idle. Ever seen Congreve rockets used against a fort?" John nodded, and tried not to think about the carnage they'd found amid the rubble afterwards. "It was my work that made it possible to aim them with any accuracy," ...
... Thea Sharrock’s revival of Martin Crimp’s 1996 Moliere update admiring the girl’s wittiness in playing a stick thin Hollywood starlet trapped in a career cul-de-sac more than dying to see her again in Congreve or David Hare. The readiness, if not the reediness, is all. Keira Knightley is just 24, although it seems she’s been around for decades. And Crimp’s Jennifer in the hotel hothouse … is a ...
... planning to use it as reference book in a paper I'm writing on the production of a contemporaryplay) - and this made me think. Did Beckett have erotica in his library? Fanny Hill crammed between Shakespeare and Congreve? I'm curious what you think. Also, please tell me what you think about our new feature, the comment fic posts. Like it? Hate it? Are 3 too many for a week or not enough? Tell me...
... words with, like, my eyeballs. Sir WilliamCongreve, of Congreve's Rocket fame, devised one of these machines...been trying to explain to readersthe basics of Congreve's device, which has to be the most obtuse...cunning -- a latter-day Baldrick, or at least Congreve. I put a new search phrase into Google: ...preferably with babes in it, for half an hour before getting back to bloodyCongreve . . . ...
... me company at the Dealers Table for a lot of the con. We had a nice little corner actually. There was a lovely couple next to us on one side for the first half who were fun to get to know. And after the first day, Bill Congreve moved to be next to us on the other side. Much happened. Most of it stays at the con :P The rest of Cat's photo stream can be found via her: catsparx .
..., nothing works. The restless craving claws me open, rips me raw. It's been more than a week, but sometimes I wonder if it will ever go away, if it will ever really be over. Then I hear the one thing that I crave above all else. "Hutch? Hey, it's okay. You're doing great. I'm proud of you, partner." Starsky's voice. Music to my ears. (A/N: Quote by WilliamCongreve, English playwright)
... to have. So he gets the joy of having us take him right to the thing he wants, and the disappointment of not being allowed to have it. He's also started 'posting' stuff, a term we picked up from BillCongreve at C5. Posting is when tHey start going, 'Hey, I bet I can put this thing I'm holding, in that thing over there!' So now we're in a mix of ongoing surprise, and regular hunting. So one can'...
... Rooney on Twitter: "It's not wholesome." bit.ly/6JfUn # 11:11 "I don't know how it is with others, but ... I could never look long upon a monkey without very mortifying reflections." Congreve # 14:35 Did I manage to incorporatelast night's VMA brouhaha into my opening lecture on the 18th century? Of course I did. # 17:40 Usually teach on nothing but coffee. About to try it ...
... his time to go.) However, Magorium passes along some sort of Valuable Moral Lesson about believing in oneself to Mahoney, via the process of bequeathing her some sort of large wooden block called the Congreve Cube, whose purpose isn't exactly clear other than that it's supposed to be some sort of fuzzily-defined metaphor for turning yourself into the person you always wanted to be. Or something. ...
