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Richard Beymer

George Richard Beymer Jr. (born February 20, 1938) is an American actor, filmmaker and artist who played the roles of Tony in the film version of West Side Story (1961), Peter in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), and Ben Horne on the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017).

Child actor
Beymer acted on television in Los Angeles for three years, rehearsing after school during the week and recording it on Saturdays. The show ended when he was 13.

Beymer made his feature-film debut in Vittorio De Sica's Stazione Termini (1953).

He was under contract to David O. Selznick for a year.

The contract with Selznick lasted for one year. Beymer was in much demand on television: Cavalcade of America (1954) and Johnny Tremain (1957). He guest starred in 26 Men, Zane Grey Theatre, Make Room for Daddy, The Gray Ghost, Navy Log, Whirlybirds, Sky King, Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, and Schlitz Playhouse.

20th Century Fox
George Stevens cast Beymer in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), playing Peter Van Daan.

Beymer was put under contract to 20th Century Fox and started to be regarded as an exciting future star. Producer William Perlberg later said "It's a thing that periodically happens out here. Somebody comes along and talk starts and agents and studios keep talking and talking. Like an avalanche, the talk gathers speed. Ultimately that 'somebody' turns out to be a big name in Hollywood only."

After appearing in Playhouse 90, he had a supporting role in High Time (1960), a comedy with Bing Crosby and Tuesday Weld at 20th Century Fox. "I wanted to be a very good actor," said Beymer later. "I wanted to work and let the work stand for something."

In June 1960, Beymer was cast in the lead role of Tony in West Side Story (1961), a huge hit. He shared a 1962 Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor with Bobby Darin and Warren Beatty.

Beymer later said he "was miserable in West Side Story. I didn't know enough at the time because I lacked certain knowledge in acting...I came out ridiculous. I didn't stand up for what I should have and I didn't know enough. The blame should be on me."

Beymer was reunited with Weld in the Fox comedy Bachelor Flat (1961). At Columbia, he played the son of Rosalind Russell and Jack Hawkins in Five Finger Exercise (1962). Beymer later said he was "terrible" in it.

Beymer was given the role of Nick Adams in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) for Fox, with an all-star supporting cast. Producer Jerry Wald says he and director Martin Ritt agreed that Beymer was "the young actor I think stands the best chance of being the next Gary Cooper." During filming, Beymer met Sharon Tate, and he encouraged her to get into acting. The film was a big flop.

Beymer had a significant role in the film The Longest Day (1962), which was successful, but he was unhappy with his acting in the film. "They tried to make me the nice kid next door," he said. "That's just not me. They said just play you - but I am not the all-American boy."

Beymer started attending daily classes at the Actors Studio. "I just want to learn and be as professional as I can," he said.

Producer Wald and director Franklin Schaffner cast Beymer in The Stripper (1963) with Joanne Woodward, which was critically acclaimed but not a big hit. Beymer returned to New York. "I got sick of the whole thing and I left," he said.

Semi-retirement
In 1964, Beymer became involved in Freedom Summer in Mississippi. "You get tired of being a complainer, passive," he said.

He assisted Barney Frank in rescuing Freedom Democrat forms in a rental truck that had been confiscated from arrested Freedom volunteers in Canton, Mississippi on Freedom Day (July 16, 1964). During this time, he filmed the award-winning documentary A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer (1964), portraying the efforts of volunteers registering African-Americans to vote.

In February 1964, he said all the films he had done except The Longest Day "should have been classroom work and never should have been shown publicly...I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That is, I'm not a stereotyped leading man type. I'm kind of a schlepp at times...I don't care about billing and being a star. Being myself is the first thing."

Beymer guest-starred in episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre, The Virginian, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Death Valley Days. He acted in The Country Girl on stage.

Filmmaker
Beymer turned to filmmaking with The Innerview (1973), which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred.

He starred in, wrote and directed episodes of the television series Insight. He lived for two years in a commune and worked in Switzerland.

"I never left the movies," Beymer said. "I just made different kinds of movies."

Return to acting
Beymer returned to Los Angeles in 1982 to restart his career.

He appeared in Cross Country (1983). He had roles in Paper Dolls (1984), playing the husband of Mimi Rogers, and Generation (1985). His television appearances at the time include Moonlighting, Dallas, The Bronx Zoo and Buck James, and co-starred in the film Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989).

Beymer was widely seen in Twin Peaks (1990–1991) playing Ben Horne. He followed it in Blackbelt (1992) and The Presence (1993).

He made three appearances on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Li Nalas in the episodes "The Homecoming", "The Circle", and "The Siege".

Beymer was seen in Under Investigation (1993), My Girl 2 (1994), State of Emergency (1994), The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (1996), several episodes of Murder, She Wrote, A Face to Die For (1996), The Little Death (1996), Foxfire (1996), Elvis Meets Nixon (1997) and Home: the Horror Story. He was in episodes of Flipper, The X-Files, Vengeance Unlimited, Profiler, and Family Law.

Beymer reprised his role as Ben Horne in the third season of Twin Peaks in 2017.

In 2019, Beymer visited the set of Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. In December 2021, Rachel Zegler, the film's star, released two photos on her Instagram page: One of Beymer sitting next to Spielberg; another of Beymer hugging Zegler while screenwriter Tony Kushner looked on. According to Zegler, Beymer said "Te adoro María" to her "over and over again" as they embraced.

Filmmaking
In the early 2000s, Beymer was making documentaries. One titled Whatever Happened to Richard Beymer?, which chronicled his obsession with photography throughout his life, was screened at the 2002 Twin Peaks Festival in Seattle.

He was in Sadie's Waltz (2008), then focused on directing documentaries: The Passing of a Saint (2010), It's a Beautiful World (2014), Richard Beymer's Before...the Big Bang (2016), I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun (2017), and Behind the Red Curtain (2017).

The avant-garde film The Innerview, which he directed, produced, wrote the screenplay, and edited, won the Josef von Sternberg Award at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival in 1974. His 2010 film The Passing of a Saint chronicles the funeral rites of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In April 2014, It's a Beautiful World, his film of a trip to India with David Lynch, was released.

Books
In 2007 Beymer completed Impostor: Or Whatever Happened to Richard Beymer?, his first book, a self-published novel and a semi-autobiographical account of a young actor's struggle to find himself.

As visual artist
Beymer's photographs of Twin Peaks cast and crew were featured in the gallery of behind the scenes photos on the Definitive Gold Box Edition for Twin Peaks, released on October 30, 2007. He is also a painter and sculptor.

Personal life
As of 2010, Beymer resided in Fairfield, Iowa, where he continued to make films and to write, sculpt, and paint. He practices Transcendental Meditation, to "cool out".

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Forss Water

Forss Water, known also as Forss River, has its source at the northern end of Loch Shurrey, at. About 13 kilometres north of its source the river flows into Crosskirk Bay and the Atlantic Ocean at. Crosskirk Bay is on the north coast of Great Britain and about 8 kilometres west of the burgh of Thurso, Caithness, in Highland, Scotland. The river marked the eastern extent of the Clan Mackay raid in the Sandside Chase of 1437.

Tributaries

 * Alt Torigil, known also as Alt Forsiescye, enters the river at.
 * Alltan Guinne enters at.
 * The Burn of Baillie enters at.
 * The Burn of Brimside enters at.

Bridges
The river is crossed by four road bridges and one footbridge.

The road bridges are:
 * Near the river's source at Loch Shurrey, at.
 * Near Broubster Village, at.
 * Near Westfield, at.
 * Near Lythmore, at.
 * The Bridge of Forss, which carries the A836 road at . The A836 leads towards Thurso and John o' Groats in the east and towards Reay, Melvich, Bettyhill and Tongue in the west.

The footbridge is near the river's mouth at, providing access to St Marys Chapel, to the west of the river, from Crosskirk, to the east.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hardworking families

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was merge and redirect. ugen 64 20:21, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hardworking families
A substub and dicdef that Refers to a phrase being used in the current UK general election. No potential to become encyclopaedic and it's difficult to think of anything more that can be said about it. Dbiv 10:39, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The article has changed substantially since I wrote this (I note it includes a brief description I wrote here but never intended to be in the article itself), but as said below it is now veering strongly in the direction of original research. It also has something of a POV problem, not in that it takes a somewhat cynical view of political discourse. I wonder if a home can be found for a slightly refactored version, for example in Rhetoric or some similar article? But I'm afraid I can't justify withdrawing the VFD. A political phrase is only worthy of a separate article if it has a particular resonance and identity with a policy (eg 'New Deal'), and this phrase is precisely aimed at not doing that. Dbiv 21:28, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) See below. Dbiv 23:40, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Agree with CM (reluctantly) - an article on the new meaning of 'dog whistle' :-( might be more likely to stay the course though.Linuxlad 14:33, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - I agree that it lacks potential to go anywhere. Charles Matthews 11:14, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * For one thing, families are not employed, mostly, but individuals. I'm not uninterested in the rhetoric, but it's such a can of worms I don't think we can have a sensible page on it alone.Charles Matthews
 * Refactor : I created the article because I did not understand what the phrase meant (the semantic face-value is mysterious) but it seemed to be used very frequently by both Labour and Conservative politicians. At least it should be merged into the article code word (propaganda) or UK general election, 2005.  – Kaihsu 11:56, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
 * Keep : Thanks for people being considerate. I think this would be a viable NPOV article to keep if we could find from Lexis-Nexis, the Hansard, etc. examples of use, first usage, etc.  It is not a mere dictionary entry as the semantic value is not the pragmatic value. – Kaihsu 09:49, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)

 * Delete. Unencyclopedic phrase. Mikkalai 12:27, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep This is an important codeword in current right wing politics (See Dbiv's comment below). This is the british equivalent of "Hardworking Americans" who deserve a tax cut. Personally I favor policies that would benefit chavs at the expense of Hardworking Families. Klonimus 06:31, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Question: does this mean anything different from "families which are hardworking"? Kappa 21:37, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, not in principle, no. But in the UK election it's being used as a code: the parties all want to lower taxes and provide services for "hardworking families", by which they mean to include everyone who might vote for them but exclude feckless benefit recipients (right-wing use) or those who have unearned income (left-wing use). Which is what I suspect Kaihsu was trying to say, but I think it has extremely limited value as a separate page. Dbiv 21:53, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not encyclopaedic, POV phrase. Megan1967 07:13, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unencyclopedic. Radiant_* 08:56, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC) Abstain per discussion below.  Radiant_* 09:34, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, alternately merge and redirect to newspeak. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:27, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I really appreciate the job Kaihsu done with the new version of the article. But what he did is a brilliant example of original research, to supporthis point of view that the expression in question is interpreted differently by different societies/parties/whatever. What is still lacking is secondary sources, i.e., respectful researchers (no disrespect to Kaishu) who described of this phenomenon in authoritative sources. Also, so far the article is a mostly about the usage of the term, i.e., more in the dicdef section. Clearly, its actual meaning "families that work hard" depends on what different people mean when they say "work hard". A buglar works hard. Sometimes.
 * So, who else besides kaishu and other wikipedians noticed and described the notoriety of the term? Mikkalai 15:18, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed, original research is still one argument against this article, though I did little more than searching on existing databases and the web. I still think the article is useful and encyclopedic.  If this article gets deleted in the end, I shall seek to publish my contribution elsewhere, perhaps with my existing dual-licensing.  Cheers for your considered arguments. – Kaihsu 15:27, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)
 * I agree the article is useful. But the notability of a thing must be established prior to the publication in wikipedia, rather than in wikipedia. Also, when publishing elsewhere, please keep in mind that not all people have the same understanding which sources are authoritative to be counted here (just like with "workharding families" :-) Mikkalai 16:10, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I looked to see what rhetorical device this would be classified as, and found that we didn't cover this in anything listed under rhetoric. However, rhetoric does not link to the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, which in turn fails to link to glittering generality.  And with that knowledge to hand, both problems here are solved.  This phrase is an example of a glittering generality, so we know how to treat it, and the IPA's article on Glittering Generalities is one good secondary source dealing with this phenomenon, ameliorating the secondary source issue to an extent. So I suggest a merger of some kind, with some refactoring, to glittering generality. Note that this phrase is not an example of a code word (figure of speech), because it doesn't meet the definition of "code word" given.  The definition of glittering generality fits far better. Uncle G 17:14, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)
 * Since we are at it, glittering generality has no category assigned. Will it fit into the Category:Rhetoric or Category:Figures of speech? Mikkalai 17:57, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Now it is on Indymedia. I would support a refactor-merge with glittering generality if folk feel that is better.  Cheers for the kind considerations from all of you.  – Kaihsu 18:00, 2005 Apr 13 (UTC)
 * Modified article. I've done some refactoring in place, as if this were a section within glittering generality. See what you think. Uncle G 16:25, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)
 * Good work. I now say Merge and redirect. Dbiv 23:40, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, real concept, deletionism needs deleted. Sam Spade Apply now, exciting opportunities available at Spade & Archer! 13:35, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is a "concept", i.e., an abstract notion, and we are speaking about a particular article that describes this concept. The unanswered question is: besides the usage of the word, in what critical works it has been analyzed? Wikipedia cannot be the first one. Small town is a real concept, with very specific problems. There are tens of thousands other two-word phrases about "real concepts". Show me the book, please, and the article is a go. Mikkalai 15:19, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * . Sam Spade Apply now, exciting opportunities available at Spade & Archer! 12:20, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Sam, thank you. I know how to use internet. The reference you gave is a usage of the term, not its scientific/encyclopedic discussion. Mikkalai 15:16, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * No. That's simply yet one more use of the glittering generality.  Nothing in that series of television programmes purports to describe the concept of "hardworking families".  Instead they describe foster care, adoption, child support, and the like, and use the glittering generality to attempt to gain widespread appeal and to imply that this is positive action for the benefit of those who inarguably deserve it.  This is why a redirect from the phrase to an article about such phrases in political discourse of which this is but one example is I think the best approach.  It solves the problem of people in Kaihsu's shoes.  Such people come to the encyclopaedia not knowing what a "hardworking family" is, and the encyclopaedia tells them that there is no definite meaning to the term, but instead shows them that politics has a long history of such deliberately vague terms (or, at least, a history that goes back at least as far as the 1940s, when the Institute for Propaganda Analysis analysed these things) to which politicians expect the audience to ascribe their own meanings. They may not have been instructed in the way that they expected to be, but they've been instructed. Uncle G 16:25, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)
 * G, this is yet another, example of brilliant, but original research (and please don't poke me with this kaishu's indymedia contribution: there is no peer review at this site. Otherwise everyone could have been publish any bull in wikipedia by submitting at indymedia or elsewhere first). I still don't have the question answered: who and where (besides kaishu) critically discussed this term? Mikkalai 17:03, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The problem here is secondary sources. But it's a limited problem.  We don't have a problem with the concept of glittering generalities; we have the Institute for Propaganda Analysis as at least one source for that.  We don't have a problem with all of the quotations mentioning "hardworking families"; we (presuming the external hyperlinks to be correct) have full references for those.  The core of the problem, the only part that remains, is whether anyone has considered the phrase "hardworking families" in terms of its propaganda value apart from us:
 * We certainly have plenty of evidence for its use, particularly in political strategy documents where politicians prescribe the propaganda that their party members should use.
 * We have uses of "hardworking", by itself, by people whose job was explicitly Minister of Propaganda.
 * We have sites such as this one that analyse statements containing such phrases as propaganda.
 * We also have sites such as this one that analyse Nazi propaganda and that use the word "hardworking" as an example ("Using the Preemptive Strike doctrine, the Nazi propaganda machine actually managed to convince ordinary Germans that the National Socialist government was invading other countries and laying waste to their cities in defense of Nazi Germany. It all read like a quaint little story: the racially inferior, parasitic, uncivilized, disheveled, excitable brute was out to kill pure, God fearing, hardworking Germans.")
 * And finally (I've just turned this up.), we have "Summary of Politics: The Art of Bamboozling" which says "Another red herring is argumentum ad populum, also know as stroking. This is when a politician will compliment the people, such as "hardworking ...".  (This mid-term paper is flawed.  I suspect deliberately so, as a copyright trap.  The spelling errors are probably deliberate, and the mis-labelling of this as Argumentum ad populum is probably deliberate also.  But that's beside the point here, which is that someone has addressed this word as a propaganda word.)
 * Without the last, I would have said that it was borderline and circumstantial. With the last, we have confirmation that "hardworking" has been discussed as a propaganda word by others, albeit that "hardworking families", specifically, may not have been.  (It's a pity that "pay money to see the rest" cuts in at exactly the point that it does.  ☺)  So the question is: Is the adjective enough? Uncle G 13:30, 2005 Apr 16 (UTC)
 * Keep, interesting and encyclopædic. Grue 19:10, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * merge per Uncle G Kappa 19:29, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I am going ahead with the merge. – Kaihsu 08:57, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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One of the Guys

One of the Guys may refer to:

Film and television

 * One of the Guys (film), a 2018 Canadian documentary film
 * One of the Guys, a 1998 TV movie in the Billy the Cat series
 * "One of the Guys", a 1999 episode of Pepper Ann
 * "One of the Guys", a 2003 episode of Lizzie McGuire

Music

 * "One of the Guys", a song by Kellie Pickler from the 2006 album Small Town Girl
 * "One of the Guys", a 1967 song by MC5
 * "One of the Guys", a song by Terri Clark on the 2004 album Greatest Hits 1994–2004
 * "One of the Guys", a song from the 2001 musical Peggy Sue Got Married

Other uses

 * One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs and Gender, a 2001 non-fiction book by criminologist Jody Miller
 * One of the Guys, a 1988 book by Harry Stein

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Minoru Torihada

Minoru Torihada (鳥肌実 Torihada Minoru) is a male Japanese comedian who claims to come from Sakhalin. His assumed surname, Torihada means "goosebumps" ("tori" meaning "bird" or class Aves, "hada" meaning "skin" or a soft outer covering of a vertebrate). He has an Internet channel called "Torijajiira Hōsō" (トリジャジーラ放送, or Torijazeera Broadcast), a parody of Al Jazeera.

Biography
The central concept of his act is that Torihada claims to be an extreme right-winger and a supporter of imperialism and militarism. According to essayist Mike Rogers writing in 2005, he was "the first Japanese comedian to venture into taboo subjects like the Imperial Family and make a mockery of Imperial Japan."

Discography

 * Torism (トリズム) (2004)
 * 鳥肌黙示録 (2001)
 * 鳥肌実 (2001)

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Gravesend railway station

Gravesend railway station serves the town of Gravesend in north Kent, England. It is 23 mi down the line from London Charing Cross.

Train services are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink. During Christmas 2013, a major overhaul of the lines and platforms changed the four track, two platform layout into two through lines and a western facing bay platform.

History
The first railway line to arrive in Gravesend was the Gravesend & Rochester Railway (G&RR) who had purchased the Thames and Medway Canal and its tunnel between Strood and Higham. The G&RR ran the first train to the then terminus at Gravesend (adjacent to the Canal Basin) on 10 February 1845. On 30 July 1849 the line was extended to North Kent East Junction on the South Eastern Railway (SER) and thence to London Bridge.

There was a second Gravesend station (later known as Gravesend West Street then later still Gravesend West) opened by SER's rivals, London, Chatham & Dover Railway (LCDR). It was the end of a branch off the LCDR's main line and it allowed access to Victoria. Journey times were uncompetitive and, when the two companies combined in 1899, the branch was soon relegated to a secondary line and closed in 1968. To differentiate from this other station, Gravesend was named Gravesend Central for a long time.

High speed HS1 services to London St Pancras International were introduced in December 2009 and proved highly successful, having cut London-bound journey times to 23 minutes. The station is now seen as a major interchange for metro and high speed services. There is far greater customer patronage for high speed services to St Pancras from Gravesend in comparison to nearby Ebbsfleet International, where usage is considered modest at best. This might be due (in part) to the sizeable London-bound commuter population in and around Gravesham, as opposed to domestic passenger use at Ebbsfleet, from elsewhere in North West Kent. Additionally services between Maidstone West and London St Pancras have since been added to SouthEastern's High Speed route, which stop at Strood and Gravesend prior to joining the high speed lines at Ebbsfleet.

In 2013 a £19 million overhaul of the station, platforms and lines involved the demolition of a former water tank base on the southern platform of the station (Platform 1 at this time), the installation of a new lift/stair bridge complex towards the western end of the station, the removal of the early 20th century footbridge that spanned the lines close to the ticket halls and a major remodelling of the lines and platforms.

The station's track layout was substantially altered in December 2013. This was primarily for extending the current platforms to accommodate 12 coach trains as opposed to the previous 10 coach limit. Platform 1 has been extended and converted to a London facing bay platform and renumbered as Platform 0. A new single face central Platform 1 is located on the site of what was the former up 'through' road. Services from Medway and Faversham, including London bound high speed trains, use this platform. This new platform has bidirectional workings and capability. Platform 2 remained numbered as '2'; however, it lost its turnback capability and thus caters solely for coast bound services. Services terminating at Gravesend from London Charing Cross or London Cannon Street stations terminate on Platform 0.

The previous historic but narrow central footbridge has been replaced with a large sheltered bridge with lifts, at the London end of the station and serving all three platforms. This new bridge is at the far western end of the platforms; the previous bridge was conveniently near the centre of the platforms and near to the entry/exit.

Services
Services at Gravesend are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink using, , , ,  and  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 2 tph to London St Pancras International
 * 2 tph to London Charing Cross via Sidcup
 * 2 tph to London Victoria via Bexleyheath
 * 2 tph to Luton via Woolwich Arsenal and Greenwich
 * 2 tph to Rainham
 * 1 tph to Faversham
 * 1 tph to Ramsgate

Additional services, including trains to and from London Cannon Street, and two daily return services between London St Pancras International and Maidstone West call at the station during the peak hours.

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David Helvarg
I put this up on FAC prematurely. How should I expand the article to give it enough meat ... or is the subject inherently too slight for FAC? --Theo (Talk) 10:45, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This what Meelar said when I posted this to FAC:
 * This seems awfully short for a featured article. It also reads a bit like a CV. The section on his books, for example, could conceivably be expanded--was there any political reaction to them, did they bring new questions to light, etc. In short, there's just not enough meat here. Meelar (talk) 23:58, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Still too short for a FA. His life section is pretty good, but the section on his works needs more info. I pretty much concur with Meelar, sorry I can't give you anymore help. Bratsche talk  random 21:30, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * I have now expanded the material on his books. Is it appropriate to go into details of the subjects that he covered as a journalist and describe his broadcasting in more detail? --Theo  (Talk) 11:44, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I still seek comments on the breadth and depth of this article now that I have addressed all previous comments. --Theo (Talk) 15:54, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


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Higham railway station (Kent)

Higham railway station is in the hamlet of Lower Higham in north Kent. The village of Higham is about 1 mi to the south.

It is 28 mi down the line from London Charing Cross. Train services have been operated by Thameslink since May 2018. Before that time, the services were operated by Southeastern and its predecessors, although the station is still managed by Southeastern.

The ticket office, on the 'up' side, is situated in the substantial station building. This is staffed only during part of the day; at other times a PERTIS passenger-operated ticket machine issues 'Permits to Travel' - which are exchanged on-train or at staffed stations for travel tickets - and is located at the entrance to the up platform, at the foot of the staircase.

From Higham to Strood, the railway passes through a tunnel built for the Thames and Medway Canal, and the station building was converted from the home of the canal towing contractor. The waiting room was heated by the original open fire until as recently as the 1980s.

History
One of the more unusual pieces of freight handled by the station was a Swiss chalet, in 94 separate pieces, packed into 58 boxes. It arrived over Christmas 1864 as a gift for Charles Dickens at nearby Gad's Hill.

According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were being handled at this station in 1956: G, P, L, H, C and there was a 1-ton 2 cwt crane.

Services
Off-peak, all services at Higham are operated by Thameslink using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 2 tph to Luton via Dartford and Greenwich
 * 2 tph to Rainham

Additional services, including a small number of Southeastern operated trains to and from London Charing Cross via Sidcup call at the station during the peak hours.

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Susan Strasberg

Susan Elizabeth Strasberg (May 22, 1938 – January 21, 1999) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Thought to be the next Hepburn-type ingenue, she was nominated for a Tony Award at age 18, playing the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank. She appeared on the covers of LIFE and Newsweek in 1955. A close friend of Marilyn Monroe and Richard Burton, she wrote two best-selling tell-all books. Her later career primarily consisted of slasher and horror films, followed by TV roles, by the 1980s.

Early life
Strasberg was born in New York City to theatre director and drama coach Lee Strasberg of the Actors Studio and former actress Paula Strasberg. Her brother, John, is an acting coach. Her father was born in what is now Ukraine, and her mother in New York City. They were both from Jewish families who emigrated from Europe.

Strasberg attended the Professional Children's School, and then spent time at both The High School of Music & Art and the High School of Performing Arts. She also did some modelling.

Early roles
At age 14, Strasberg appeared off-Broadway in Maya in 1953, which ran seven performances. Her TV debut was in "Catch a Falling Star", an episode of Goodyear Playhouse directed by Delbert Mann the same year.

She was in Romeo and Juliet for Kraft Theatre (1954), playing Juliet, and episodes of General Electric Theater and Omnibus.

She had a regular role in a short-lived sitcom, The Marriage, playing the daughter of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. It was the first network show broadcast in color.

Strasberg made her film debut in The Cobweb (1955). She followed it with a widely praised performance as a teenager in Picnic (1955), playing the younger sister of Kim Novak. Kim Stanley played the role on Broadway but was too old for film. Joshua Logan, the director, wrote Strasberg's "incipient beauty and spirit seemed just right for me."

The Diary of Anne Frank
Strasberg originated the title role in the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Garson Kanin, which ran for 717 performances from 1955 to 1957. Brooks Atkinson wrote that she was "a slender, enchanting young lady with a heart-shaped face, a pair of burning eyes, and the soul of an actress."

Strasberg was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of 18 and became the youngest actress to star on Broadway with her name above the marquee title. In 1955 she appeared twice on the cover of Life (July 11, 1955 issue; November 11, 1955 issue) and soon after on the cover of Newsweek (December 19, 1955 issue).

During her run on the show she did The Cradle Song with Helen Hayes on TV.

The success of the play led to numerous film offers. She decided on the lead in Stage Struck (1958), directed by Sidney Lumet. It was a remake of Morning Glory (1933) with Katharine Hepburn. According to one obituary, "It had seemed as if the beautiful, dark-haired actress might have an impact equal to that made by Jean Simmons and Audrey Hepburn as ingenues."

Strasberg was not cast in the George Stevens film version of Anne Frank. Several reasons have been suggested for this: that Stevens did not want to deal with the influence of Strasberg's mother, Paula, and that Stevens saw Strasberg at the end of the play's run when her performance had become tired. Strasberg did not test for the role.

Strasberg's next appearance on Broadway was in Time Remembered (1957–58) by Jean Anouilh with Richard Burton and Helen Hayes. It was another success and ran for 248 performances.

Strasberg continued to guest star on TV shows like Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Play of the Week (a production of The Cherry Orchard with Hayes), and Our American Heritage.

She was in the cast of the New York City Center production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life that played at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. It was filmed for Armchair Theatre.

Strasberg appeared in Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman (1958–59) for Jack Garfein alongside members of the Actors Studio; it ran for 52 performances. Brooks Atkinson said she had "willowy freshness".

In 1959 she toured with Franchot Tone in Caesar and Cleopatra.

Italy
She went to Europe to star in the Italian–Yugoslav Holocaust film Kapò (1960), which was nominated for an Academy Award as its year's Best Foreign Language Film.

Strasberg based herself in Italy for the next few years. "I wanted to see what it was like when I was alone", she said.

In Rome, the Teatro Tordinona has dedicated a hall in her memory.

She traveled to England to make Scream of Fear (1961) for Hammer Films, and in Italy did Disorder (1962) with Louis Jourdan and the Hollywood film Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962).

Return to US
Strasberg returned to the US to appear on Broadway in The Lady of the Camellias (1963), directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The director said Strasberg had the qualities of being "romantic, cynical, classical, contemporary." The show only ran for 13 performances.

Strasberg began to concentrate on television, guest-starring on Dr Kildare, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Breaking Point, Burke's Law, and The Rogues.

She made The High Bright Sun (1965) in England then went back to TV: Run for Your Life, The Legend of Jesse James (starring Christopher Jones, who became her husband), The Big Valley and The Invaders.

She made Chubasco (1967) with Jones, and did some counterculture movies: The Trip (1967) for Roger Corman, as the wife of Peter Fonda, and Psych-Out (1968) with Jack Nicholson. She also did The Name of the Game Is Kill! (1968), The Brotherhood (1968) and The Sisters (1969).

Late 1960s and 1970s
In the late 1960s & 1970s Strasberg did mostly TV: The Big Valley; The Virginian; Bonanza; Lancer; The Name of the Game; Premiere; The F.B.I.; CBS Playhouse; Marcus Welby, M.D.; The Streets of San Francisco; Night Gallery; The Young Lawyers; McCloud; Alias Smith & Jones; The Sixth Sense; Assignment Vienna; The Wide World of Mystery; The Evil Touch; Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law; The Rockford Files (twice); and Mannix. "I did mediocre things because that way I didn't have to test myself", she said later. "I had a tremendous need not to shame my father."

She did occasional TV movies like Hauser's Memory (1970), Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971) and ...And Millions Die! (1973) and the occasional feature like Ternos Caçadores (1970), The Legend of Hillbilly John (1972), and Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind (ultimately released in 2018).

Strasberg had a regular role on the series Toma (1974). She guested on Police Surgeon, McMillan & Wife, Petrocelli, Ellery Queen, Kate McShane, Medical Story, Bronk, and Harry O.

Strasberg had the lead in So Evil, My Sister (1974) and was in Mystery at Malibu (1976), Sammy Somebody (1976), SST: Death Flight (1977), Rollercoaster (1977), The Manitou (1977),Tre soldi e la donna di classe (1977), In Praise of Older Women (1978), The Immigrants (1978), and Beggarman, Thief (1979).

In 1976 she appeared in a short film directed by Lee Grant called The Stronger, based on a play by August Strindberg, which she said reignited her passion for acting.

In 1980 she published a memoir, Bittersweet, because she said her career was "stalled. . . . It seemed totally untenable to me, acting for 25 years—I had played Juliet, Cleopatra, and Anne Frank—and there I was, sitting in Hollywood just waiting for somebody to want me."

1980s
In the 1980s Strasberg's credits included Bloody Birthday (1981); The Love Boat; Mazes and Monsters (1982); Sweet Sixteen (1983); The Returning (1983); The New Mike Hammer; Tales of the Unexpected; Tales from the Darkside; The Delta Force (1986); Remington Steele; Hot Shots; Murder, She Wrote; Cagney & Lacey; and The Runnin' Kind (1989).

"I love acting", she said in 1983. "I mean, I can't quite conceive of not doing it. But it's less important to me since I started writing, because I really like writing. And I really enjoy, I love lecturing and speaking and having that kind of contact with people too."

Her last performances included the biopic Schweitzer (1990), the action movie Prime Suspect (1990) with Frank Stallone and Il giardino dei ciliegi (1992).

In 1993 she was a jury member for the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Writing
Strasberg wrote two best-selling books. Bittersweet was an autobiography in which she wrote about her tumultuous relationships with her parents and with actors Richard Burton and Christopher Jones, as well as with her own daughter's struggles with a heart defect. She received a $100,000 advance for it and sold paperback rights for $300,000.

Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends (1992) was about Strasberg's friendship with Marilyn Monroe, whom she called a "surrogate sister" and a "member" of the Strasberg family for many years.

Strasberg was working on a third book about her personal spiritual journey at the time of her death entitled Confessions of a New Age Heretic.

Personal life
Before her marriage, Strasberg had relationships with Bobby Driscoll, Warren Beatty, Cary Grant, and Richard Burton.

On September 25, 1965, in Las Vegas, Strasberg married actor Christopher Jones, with whom she had appeared in an episode of The Legend of Jesse James. Their daughter, Jennifer Robin, was born six months later. The couple divorced in 1968 due to her husband's mental instability. Jennifer was born with a congenital birth defect, which Strasberg blamed on her and Jones's drug-taking.

Death
In the mid-1990s Strasberg was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although believed to be in remission, she died of the disease at her home in New York City on January 21, 1999, at age 60.

Filmography and television

 * The Cobweb (1955) as Sue Brett
 * Picnic (1955) as Millie Owens
 * 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955) (short subject)
 * Stage Struck (1958) as Eva Lovelace
 * Kapò (1960) as Edith, alias Nicole Niepas
 * Scream of Fear (1961) as Penny Appleby
 * Disorder (1962) as Isabella
 * Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) as Rosanna
 * The Shortest Day (1962) (uncredited)
 * The High Bright Sun (1965) as Juno Kozani
 * The Invaders, "Quantity Unknown" (Season 1: Episode 8, 1967) as Diane Oberly
 * The Big Valley (1967, Episode: "Night in a Small Town") as Sally
 * The F.B.I. (1967, Episode: "The Executioners") as Chris Roland
 * Chubasco (1968) as Bunny
 * The Trip (1967) as Sally Groves
 * Psych-Out (1968) as Jenny Davis
 * The Name of the Game Is Kill! (1968) as Mickey Terry
 * Bonanza (1968, Episode: "A Severe Case Of Matrimony") as Rosalita
 * The Brotherhood (1968) as Emma Ginetta
 * The Sisters (1969) as Martha
 * Sweet Hunters (1969) as Lis
 * McCloud (1970) as Lorraine / Annette Bardege
 * Night Gallery (1971–1973, 2 episodes) as Sheila Trent / Ruth Asquith (segment "Midnight Never Ends")
 * The Sixth Sense (TV series) (1972: Once Upon a Chilling")
 * The Legend of Hillbilly John (1972) as Polly Wiltse
 * Frankenstein (1973) as Elizabeth Lavenza
 * Toma (1973) as Patty Toma (series regular; 23 episodes)
 * And Millions Will Die (1973) as Heather Kessler
 * The Rockford Files (1974, Episode: "The Countess") as Deborah Ryder
 * So Evil, My Sister (1974) as Brenda
 * McMillan and Wife (1974) as Virginia Ryan
 * Sammy Somebody (1976)
 * The Rockford Files (1976, Episode: "A Bad Deal In The Valley") as Karen Stiles
 * The Stronger (1976, Short)
 * Rollercoaster (1977) as Fran
 * Tre soldi e la donna di classe (1977)
 * The Manitou (1978) as Karen Tandy
 * In Praise of Older Women (1978) as Bobbie
 * The Immigrants (1978) as Sarah Levy
 * $weepstake$ (1979, Episode: "Roscoe, Elizabeth, and the M.C.") as Beverly
 * Beggarman, Thief (1979) as Ida Cohen
 * Acting: Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio (1981, Documentary)
 * Bloody Birthday (1981) as Miss Viola Davis
 * Mazes and Monsters (1982) as Meg
 * Sweet Sixteen (1983) as Joanne Morgan
 * The Returning (1983) as Sybil Ophir
 * Tales of the Unexpected (1984–1985, TV Series) as Roberta Elton / Madame Myra
 * Tales from the Darkside (1985) as artist Kate in episode "Effect and Cause"
 * The Delta Force (1986) as Debra Levine (Passenger)
 * Remembering Marilyn (1987, Documentary)
 * Murder, She Wrote (1987, Episode: "The Days Dwindle Down") as Dorothy Hearn Davis
 * Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987, Documentary)
 * The Runnin' Kind (1989) as Carol Curtis
 * Prime Suspect (1989) as Dr. Celia Warren
 *  (1990) as Helene Schweitzer
 * The Cherry Orchard (1992) as Livia
 * Love, Marilyn (2012, Documentary)
 * The Other Side of the Wind (2018; shot between 1970 and 1976) as Juliette Riche

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Any relation to Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, a French economist mentioned in Bureaucracy article? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 10:48, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I edited the page to improve the flow and grammar. It had a very "translated from French" feel to it. I've checked with a Montaigne expert for certain sections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Teebol (talk • contribs) 10:24, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Richelieus pension
Weigand tells us in his 1911 Montaigne biography - referring to Tallemant des Réaux -, that Richelieu gave a pension not only to her, but also to her handmaid and - to her cat "Peillon"! Such information might by some not be considered worthy of an encyclopedia, but in my understanding it should not be withheld from the reader, as it is not only highly entertaining, but certainly throws a - be it ever so stroboscopic - light on the customs of the time with regard to "domestics" and domestic animals, and, last not least, on the character of Richelieu... --Terminally uncool (talk) 12:33, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

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"Faction Paradox take a perverse pride in causing time paradoxes" is a fallacy. They in fact do not cause time paradoxes, and the name is purely incedental (in fact used to irritate the great houses) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.153.183.227 (talk • contribs) 10:49, April 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Surely in 'Movers' and 'A Labyrinth of Histories' we see Godfather Sabbath creating multiple paradoxes in his own family tree as an initiation ceremony to the Faction? I'm sure there are other examples that don't come to mind right now... The cousin in Alien Bodies who fails is made to kill himself in some sort of paradoxical way, isn't he? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Achinton (talk • contribs) 13:49, June 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes I'm pretty sure he is. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.56.63.230 (talk • contribs) 21:34, April 11, 2006 (UTC)

Has anyone got any information on factionparadox.co.uk? Page seems to have been down forever now. Is there an internet archive of it that can be used, as it seems a shame to take the page down completely, as it was a great page way back when... SalemMacGourley 13:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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Strood railway station

Strood railway station serves the town of Strood in Medway, England. It is on the North Kent Line and is also a terminus of the Medway Valley Line. It is 31 mi down the line from London Charing Cross.

Train services are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink.

History

The South Eastern Railway (SER) had reached Strood in 1845 as the terminus of the line from Gravesend. In 1856, this line was linked to the existing Maidstone branch from Paddock Wood, which had opened in 1844. The new line left the line from Gravesend between Strood Tunnel and the original Strood terminus; a new Strood station was provided on the Maidstone line, and it opened with the line on 18 June 1856.

The station became a junction with the opening of the first section of the East Kent Railway (EKR) between Strood and Chatham on 29 March 1858. The London, Chatham & Dover Railway (which the EKR had become in 1859) soon opened their own route from Rochester towards London, the first portion as far as Bickley opening on 3 December 1860. The curve connecting the LCDR line with Strood station fell into disuse (apart from one goods train in each direction per day), but passenger services over this line were reintroduced in early 1877 at the insistence of the Mayor of Chatham. The Mayor's name was Toomer, and the line then became known as the "Toomer Loop".

Although Strood station was the property of the SER, the Toomer Loop, together with the stations at Rochester and Chatham, was LCDR property. A second junction at Strood was bought into use on 20 July 1891, when the first section of the Rochester & Chatham Extension was opened, by which SER trains reached their own stations at Rochester and, from 1 March 1892, Chatham. This line was to the north-east of, and largely ran parallel to, the LCDR line; it had its own bridge over the Medway. On 1 January 1899 the SER and LCDR entered into a working union which traded as the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SE&CR) and set about eliminating duplicated facilities. In 1911, a connecting line was put in between the SER and LCDR on the south-eastern side of the SER's Rochester Bridge; this allowed trains from Strood to reach the LCDR stations at Rochester and Chatham from October 1911. In 1927 (after the SER & LCDR had merged with other railways to form the Southern Railway), another connecting line was put in between the former SER and LCDR routes on the north-eastern side of the SER's Rochester Bridge; this enabled the LCDR's bridge to be taken out of use.

Southeastern introduced a full timetable of domestic high-speed services branded Southeastern Highspeed over High Speed 1 between London St Pancras and Ashford International on 13 December 2009, although public preview services had been running since 29 June 2009. High-speed trains use High Speed 1 calling at Stratford International and Ebbsfleet International. Trains from London to the Medway towns and Faversham leave the high-speed line at Ebbsfleet and continue via the North Kent line through Gravesend, Strood, Rochester. A limited peak hour service now also operates between St Pancras and Maidstone West via Ebbsfleet and Strood.

At the same time there was the largest change to the timetable in the area in 40 years in order to accommodate the extra trains. This meant that rail services from Newington and Teynham were cut, in order to facilitate this new service. To use the train service over the High Speed 1 section of line generally requires payment of a surcharge.

In December 2017, the station received a £2.59 million refurbishment which included new entrances, a larger booking hall and a new waiting room.

Facilities
The station has three platforms; Platform 1 is directly accessible from the station building. Platforms 2 and 3 are on an island platform. The entrance, ticket office and ticket barriers adjoin Platform 1, with a tunnel from that platform leading to the island. In 2014, a new bridge with lifts was built at the southern end of the station to replace the tunnel and provide wheelchair access to the island platform. As of summer 2015 both the bridge and tunnel are open.

Platforms 2 and 1 mainly handle traffic to and from London respectively, with Maidstone West, Tonbridge and Paddock Wood services terminating at and returning from Platform 3.

Until the early 1980s, an additional entrance to the station was located on Station Road. The entrance was a continuation of the station subway, the external building is still extant on Station Road, although all windows and doors have been bricked up. The building contained a small ticket office.

Services
Services at Strood are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink using, , , and  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 2 tph to Luton via Dartford and Greenwich
 * 2 tph to London St Pancras International
 * 2 tph to Rainham
 * 1 tph to Faversham
 * 1 tph to Ramsgate
 * 2 tph to Paddock Wood via Maidstone West

Additional services, including trains to and from London Charing Cross via Sidcup, and two daily return services between London St Pancras International and Maidstone West call at the station during the peak hours.

The station is also served by a small number of early morning, mid afternoon and late evening services that continue beyond Paddock Wood to and from Tonbridge.

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