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Re: Passages

#3151 Post by MichaelB » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:43 am


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Re: Passages

#3152 Post by Brian C » Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:10 am

Mr Sausage wrote:When someone dies of cancer, they don't say it was from natural causes...
"Natural causes" is used all the time when the actual cause of death is not disclosed or is otherwise unavailable to reporters but not the result of foul play or accident.

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Re: Passages

#3153 Post by Antares » Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:47 pm

Mr Sausage wrote:When someone dies of cancer, they don't say it was from natural causes, they say it was from cancer.
Not true, they tend to say that the person died after a long or protracted illness. My mother died of cancer, and this was how it was written in her obituary. It was also written this way for an old girl friend who died from breast cancer and for an uncle who died from colon cancer.

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Re: Passages

#3154 Post by Mr Sausage » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:10 pm

Sounds like someone at your local paper isn't a big fan of the c-word.

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#3155 Post by tarpilot » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:15 pm

Mr Sausage wrote:Sounds like someone at your local paper isn't a big fan of the c-word.
It's a typo!

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#3156 Post by Brian C » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:17 pm

Mr Sausage wrote:Sounds like someone at your local paper isn't a big fan of the c-word.
Come on, man, just google the phrase "death by natural causes" and be done with it. It's completely routine usage.

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#3157 Post by Mr Sausage » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:53 pm

Brian C wrote:
Mr Sausage wrote:Sounds like someone at your local paper isn't a big fan of the c-word.
Come on, man, just google the phrase "death by natural causes" and be done with it. It's completely routine usage.
And actually start taking this seriously? Just when I'm starting to get personal anecdotes and replies laced with frustration? Not on your life, son.

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#3158 Post by Brian C » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:55 pm

That's sure a funny way of saying "You're right, I don't know what I was thinking."

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#3159 Post by Mr Sausage » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:04 pm

Brian C wrote:That's sure a funny way of saying "You're right, I don't know what I was thinking."
BANNED!

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#3160 Post by Brian C » Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:40 am

And in the obit thread, too. How convenient!

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#3161 Post by jbeall » Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:13 pm

Michael Davis, bassist for the MC5.

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#3162 Post by Feego » Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:48 pm

Pola Illéry, star of Under the Roofs of Paris

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#3163 Post by Perkins Cobb » Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:49 am

Feego wrote:Pola Illéry, star of Under the Roofs of Paris
And lived in Scranton, PA for half a century. Astounding.

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#3164 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:40 am

I suppose that only a clip from René Clair's wonderful Under The Roofs of Paris will do!

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#3165 Post by kinjitsu » Thu Feb 23, 2012 1:14 pm

Musician Billy Strange

Pioneering Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset

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#3166 Post by MichaelB » Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:54 pm

Jesus Franco's muse Lina Romay - no obits yet, so the link is to her Wikipedia page.

Confirmed by Tim Lucas from Spanish sources.

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#3167 Post by Polybius » Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:40 am

kinjitsu wrote:Pioneering Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset
A long, accomplished and fun life.

I'm guessing I'm not the only person here with a bunch of Grove paperbacks on their shelf.

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#3168 Post by spocker » Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:31 am


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#3169 Post by domino harvey » Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:35 am

One of the greats

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#3170 Post by John Edmond » Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:53 am

Gutted, just watched The Sacrifice yesterday.

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#3171 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:20 am

Very sad news. While his Bergman films and the Tarkovsky are the giant pillars of his career, I also want to point out his great performances in Dusan Makavejev's Montenegro, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books and in István Szabó's Hanussen, along with his work with Liv Ullmann, particularly in the excellent framing scenes in Faithless.

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#3172 Post by j99 » Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:21 am

A great actor.


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