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|    Aidan Kehoe to All    |
|    Re: "Jaws" released (21-6-1975)    |
|    22 Jun 24 13:40:52    |
      From: kehoea@parhasard.net               Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark:               > Spot the language link?        >        > ...        > "the 2-note ostinato which represents the shark, a theme so simple that        > Spielberg initially thought it was a joke by the composer [John        > Williams]...a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching        > danger...highly recognisable..."        >        > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack        >        > and, as Crystal points out, used not only in other films (often with comic        > intent), but quoted in conversation, to signal "approaching danger"...thus        > becoming (sort of) part of language.              What a stretch!              --       ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /       How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’       (C. Moore)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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