Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2004-06-02 14:32
Maybe, just maybe, Ken has been savouring too much of the Hensche product, Hill of Grace that is, at the Agincourt Hotel adjacent to the ABC Ultimo. It is just a supposition but maybe, at the time, the LSO were particularly insipid and it took them a while to be audible enough to reach the start of a crescendo. Another explanation may lie in the Rex Mossop phenomena. Understood only by Australians, from Sydney or Brisbane, over the age of 35, who have at least distantly followed the Rugby League. Rex, a football commentator and identity from the Manly area, was fond of tautology and general misuse of the English language. The first half of a football game was often referred to, rather poetically, as the opening stanza, What would Shakespeare have thought. The term confabulation, or spirited conversation, was generally applied to two large blokes belting each other in the head, toe to toe. Many a Saturday afternoon game of Rugby League reached a, or is that an, crescendo at least once and sometimes more than once. Maybe Rex has set the standard that arts commentatots struggle to reach. We will find out in the next stanza of play, I am sure, becuase you must bear in mind it is a game of two halves!
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