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To: Carol who wrote (16031)	1/20/1998 6:15:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Carol, I've tried to answer this post five times, and I keep hitting something with my hand that erases it. Sorry!!! I'll answer the vulnerability post after I read what has transpired today here. I'm still working on yesterday's posts somehow. (I guess that will be tomorrow, since I'm going out in a few minutes.) I'm glad you liked the Pez link. Sorry it wasn't five scientific url's, suitable for post-doctoral research but with no disturbing and yet accurate medical diagrams, but, hey, it's just a Pez Museum!!! How old is your daughter? As far as I can tell, the Antiques Roadshow is reputable in its appraisals. It's certainly an excellent primer for people like me who don't have much time to do research but do love antiques. I have learned a lot. Did you see the one about the woman who brought in the sixteenth century Italian dress/parade helmet which she had cleaned up with PLEDGE, and it was worth a quarter of a million dollars? She had found it rammed in her attic rafters, probably someone's war trophy. I certainly know now not to refinish anything which might be valuable!!! 'The Boxer' is an excellent movie--not a happy film, though. Daniel Day Lewis and Emily Watson are both very good. It is an anti-British movie for sure, but also an anti-violent movie. If you don't 'speak' Northern Irish, the dialogue might be a little difficult to understand in places. My husband helps me, though. He leaned over once and said "There's going to be a HUGE explosion in a moment." The boxing scenes are brutally realistic. The West Belfast scenery is brilliant in that it conveys the drab depression of Irish Catholic ghetto life. The movie begins and ends with really nice U2 music (my very favorite band). It portrays all of the factions on both sides of the sectarian struggle accurately, especially the less staunch Protestants and the Catholics within the IRA leadership who want peace, as well as what the Irish call the 'hard men', the ones who only want the war to continue. People clapped at the end, but most of the audience was Irish. This is an extremely Irish place, and you can live totally in the Irish community here if you want to, a lot like West Belfast. Gotta go now!!!!