Peter T. Daniels
2017-08-12 03:33:19 UTC
This evening CUNY-TV kindly put on an *Inspector Morse*, so I tuned in to see
those outdoor pubs and crossword puzzles. Instead, I found him bedridden with
a bleeding ulcer exacerbated by alcoholism. with nary a puzzle and taking up
a cold case -- the "Oxford canalboat murder of 1859." The two layers of flashback
-- the events surrounding the death, and the trial (with a fair-minded judge)
were well done, but -- just for me -- there was a criminologist, who wrote the
book that intrigued Morse, who I'd never have guessed was supposed to be American
until they said so. She certainly had an odd accent, but not an American one and
specifically not a Boston one to go with her professorship at B.U.
Morse's boss was trying to get him to retire two years early, Morse was suspicious
of Lewis (who was out of town), and he was lent a Constable Kershaw to do the
legwork, who during the course of which flirted with a librarian, a Miss Ho.
Unfortunately they're showing the two-parters one episode per week instead of
back to back as they're doing the Holmses.
And next Friday evening I'm expecting to go to MoMA for the Frank Lloyd Wright
show! (Celebrating the transfer of his archives from Taliesin West to the Avery
Library of Art and Architecture at Columbia (the materials on paper) and MoMA
(the models and other realia).
those outdoor pubs and crossword puzzles. Instead, I found him bedridden with
a bleeding ulcer exacerbated by alcoholism. with nary a puzzle and taking up
a cold case -- the "Oxford canalboat murder of 1859." The two layers of flashback
-- the events surrounding the death, and the trial (with a fair-minded judge)
were well done, but -- just for me -- there was a criminologist, who wrote the
book that intrigued Morse, who I'd never have guessed was supposed to be American
until they said so. She certainly had an odd accent, but not an American one and
specifically not a Boston one to go with her professorship at B.U.
Morse's boss was trying to get him to retire two years early, Morse was suspicious
of Lewis (who was out of town), and he was lent a Constable Kershaw to do the
legwork, who during the course of which flirted with a librarian, a Miss Ho.
Unfortunately they're showing the two-parters one episode per week instead of
back to back as they're doing the Holmses.
And next Friday evening I'm expecting to go to MoMA for the Frank Lloyd Wright
show! (Celebrating the transfer of his archives from Taliesin West to the Avery
Library of Art and Architecture at Columbia (the materials on paper) and MoMA
(the models and other realia).