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90s Introduction

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Achieving mutual understanding with the Irish will happen sooner if you have an instructor from one of the farms around Kilmaganny come to read Finnegans Wake aloud for a few months so that the cadences and idioms may be more easily mastered. —Richard Condon,

"The Pluck of the Irish," March 1993

When seen in the morning light, the costumes looked too bright. So the BBC designer convinced all the extras to roll around in puddles and, just like that, turned the clock back three hundred years. —Jeffrey Robinson,

"Costuming the BBC: Dressing for Success," October 1991

People leave reality at the door in a true deli. It's as if God gave out an eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt have a corned beef sandwich and a Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray and enjoy." —Fred Austin,

Quoted in Ed Levine, "The New York Deli," June 1993

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