In 1871 the Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway was formed to extend the line from Whimsey northwards to link up with the Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Railway at Mitcheldean Road; the line was taken over by the GWR in 1878 and completed, but never fully opened.
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In 1871 the Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway was formed to extend the line from Whimsey northwards to link up with the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway at Mitcheldean Road, the line was taken over by the GWR in 1878 and completed, but never fully opened.
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She is equally scathing about Acton's " Burlington Whimsey " which she calls " basically a dish of brawn "; she argues that the Victorians were too fond of it, and that Acton's recipe is " the epitome of dull food dressed up to look whimsical ."
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Bosley Crowther of The New York Times said, inter alia : " The minor musical whimsey that arrived at the Palace and other theaters yesterday under the just-too-cunning title of Robin and the 7 Hoods is almost as strained and archaic in the fable it has to tell of Prohibition-era gangsters in Chicago as the fable of Robin Hood it travesties.
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For rhapsodic and inventive list making * it is unequaled by anything since the Glass family's medicine cabinet in Franny and Zooey . . . . Durham bacon cake, caudle, flummery, ale jelly, Rissered haddie, Huntingdon fidget, Bucks bacon badger, star-gazey pie, slapjack, Bedfordshire clanger, Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs'pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool.
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In his article about the exhibition in Art News, ( Whimsey and poetry; traumas and taboos September, 1976 ), Meir Ronnen wrote : One left the gallery questioning many aspects of our Judeo-Christian cultural heritage a heritage of pain, suffering, superstition and a mystic belief in man s ability to rise above the physical in purification rites . Despite the fact that the original video documentation of the performance was lost, and only still photographs remain, the performance is often cited in studies, journals and books as a seminal work in Israeli art.
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But somehow they all resemble theatrical attitudes rather than average realities . " John McCarten of " The New Yorker " panned the film along the same grounds, calling it " chock-full of whimsey, and in his discretion Mr . Capra has seen to it that almost all the actors involved behave as cutely as pixies . . . Every now and then, James Stewart, who heads the cast, manages to escape from the sticky confines of the script with a bit of honest acting, but he breaks loose too seldom to pull the picture out of its doldrums ."
