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Re: Kate questions

From: Scott Telford <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 11:37:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Kate questions
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In article <m0o0SLt-000ilhC@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu>,
chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) writes:


> >2. What is "The Sweeny" (`He'll never make the Sweeny' in "Wow")
> 
>    Presumably a higher class theatre than the one he's currently
> playing.

"The Sweeney" was a popular British 70's police TV drama. "Sweeney
Todd" being the Cockney rhyming slang for "Flying Squad", a police
crime investigation unit. Note how KaTe mimes drawing a pistol during
the video and Hammersmith Odeon performance when she sings this line.
Coincidently an episode of The Sweeney was on BBC2 a couple of nights ago.

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