OK
I'll give it its full title of the "Murdoch Rag". Admittedly they do know a little more about cricket now that Christopher Martin Jenkins crossed the floor from the Torygraph. (Telegraph).
Colin Reed, tenor Newark, UK >-- Original Message -- >To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com >From: Reg Boyle <bandb@n...> >Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:32:47 +1000 >Subject: Re: [vocalist] Amazing Opera review >Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com > > >Perhaps, but to call the Times a "rag" is hardly cricket old boy. :) > >The British do tend to be a little scathing if they feel the price of >the ticket does not match the quality of the performance. > >My first singing teacher was of the British school and he wrote >de-moralizing reviews in a small town of about 80,000 people. His >personality was indeed self-centred and quite often his reviews >angered the people who attended the concert but he was not >swayed by the unwritten pledge to support the box-office as >many of the US reviewers are. > > > > > > > > >
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