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  BBC - BBC Four Cinema - Talking to a Stranger
He was ravaged by Parkinson's Disease, which he blamed on a life's work staring into the dark abyss of human cruelty.
Talking to a Stranger, a four-part serial from 1966, which George Melly called "the first authentic masterpiece written directly for television," made the BFI's TV 100 poll in 2002, and remains a devastating and inspirational study of human relationships.
But Talking to a Stranger is more than just a masterpiece written directly for television; it is a masterpiece that could only have been written for television.
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/talking-to-stranger.shtml   (475 words)

  
 There's a Stranger in Your House
On an average of six times a day, there's a stranger in your house, a stranger who has free access to your children and unlimited influence on their lives.
This stranger is cunning and has learned through years of practice and billions of dollars in research, how to enter the very soul of its prisoners.
Although this stranger can be crude, obscene and vulgar, we have decided that it can explain some things better than parents.
www.fisheaters.com /strangerinyourhouse.html   (2506 words)

  
 There's a Stranger in Your House
On average, every day that stranger talks to our children more than most parents do in a month.
We allow the stranger to teach them things and use language for which we would have a real stranger arrested.
Without hesitation, the stranger mocks parents, belittles people of honor, makes fun of moral values, denies honorable beliefs, and scoffs at family and cultural traditions.
www.catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0042.html   (807 words)

  
 Hopkins, John
John Hopkins is one of the great pioneers of British television drama, whose considerable output as a writer includes the award-winning play quartet, Talking to a Stranger, described by one contemporary critic as "the first authentic masterpiece written directly for television".
Hopkins' career in television began first as a studio manager in the 1950s, but he was soon turning his attention to writing and putting this earlier experience to good use in his plays, and there are few other writers who have exploited so effectively the potential of the multi-camera studio in their work.
Talking to a Stranger, especially in its free-floating use of time, sets up a similar experimental agenda, but in other respects remains rooted in a familiar naturalism and the close-up observation of ordinary people.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/hopkinsjohn/hopkinsjohn.htm   (708 words)

  
 Hunters & Collectors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They were noted for songs such as "Throw Your Arms Around Me", "Talking To A Stranger" and "Say Goodbye" and were renowned as one of the best live acts in Australia until their disbandment in 1998.
The sound was in the vein of Remain in Light, the Talking Heads album of 1980.
Their first single was "Talking to a Stranger" which was accompanied by an influential music video directed by filmmaker Richard Lowenstein.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunters_&_Collectors   (1464 words)

  
 Your Personal Space ............................
The better you know the person you're talking to, the smaller the bubble may be.
You might find yourself much closer to a stranger you are talking to at a dance, for instance, or in a line-up at a bank.
You might also have a very large bubble if you are not used to talking to strangers, but have a much smaller bubble if you are an extrovert.
www.worsleyschool.net /socialarts/personal/space.html   (616 words)

  
 ADHD Forums - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Support and Information Resources Community - My story
When talking to a stranger, I can be very candid, funny, and relaxed at first, but as the conversation continues I start to feel a nauseating unease build up in me. I feel a need to end the conversation abruptly and run away.
That person can be very receptive and happy to talk to me. Everything is perfect, and the feelings of anxiety still continue to surface, and I start to break off eye contact and become very fearful of the situation.
I can be talking to a stranger and start to feel fear.
www.addforums.com /forums/printthread.php?t=9339   (567 words)

  
 Don't Talk To Strangers!! - www.ezboard.com
When we were younger, we always heard the phrase "Don't talk to strangers!" And I have always followed that rule, until recently.
Sometimes, it's easier to talk to a stranger about a problem you are going through, than to someone you already know very well.
of course it is easier to talk to a stranger because he / she don,t give a damn about you.
p076.ezboard.com /fndbfrm18.showMessage?topicID=120.topic   (408 words)

  
 Reteaching Kids About Stranger Danger
A firefighter is a stranger, a neighbor might be a stranger, a clerk in a store is a stranger, and you are a stranger to many children.
Telling children never to talk to strangers gives parents false confidence that their children will be safe from people who might hurt them.
After talking to a stranger in the grocery store you might say to your over-8-year-old child, "It was okay to talk to that man as we waited in line at the grocery store, but we would never leave the store with him or get into his car."
www.bhg.com /lhj/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/hk/story/data/ScoutingStrangerDanger062005.xml&catref=cat3110006   (714 words)

  
 The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy, book review
Billy Parham is sitting by a deserted roadside in Texas talking with a stranger.
He has offered his last bit of food to a random stranger, and has slipped into an allegorical frame of mind, acting and talking as if this stranger might be Death, finally ready to take him away.
The stranger fields Billy's metaphysical questions with the greatest of ease, as if there was nothing out of the ordinary about them.
www.samizdat.com /isyn/mccarthy.html   (991 words)

  
 SafeState - Child Safety Tips
A child may be in a situation that requires interaction with a stranger, and this may be confusing.
For example, if a child gets lost in a grocery store, the child should immediately go to the checkout counter or security office even though that may mean talking to a stranger.
Never take a ride from a stranger; check with parents or a trusted adult before accepting a ride even from someone they know.
www.safestate.org /index.cfm?navid=216   (472 words)

  
 Current Research: Intimacy and the behaviors people explain
If a stranger asks Anne about her day, she will probably explain her observable behaviors ("I worked out for two hours this morning"), but if a friend asks the same question, she may be more willing to explain her unobservable behaviors ("I felt so great during my workout this morning").
Study 1, which is almost completed, invites pairs of friends and pairs of strangers into the laboratory and ask them to have a conversation about recent life events.
A second possible explanation is that talking about oneself is necessary for the transfer to occur because it encourages people to empathize with the other person's experiences.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~interact/intim.html   (811 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Fished out of water, stranger isn't talking
The duffel bag floated away, and local officials say all they have to go on is the fact that he's Asian, wore a tank top with a Korean label, and fell, jumped or was pushed into the water with his shoes on.
Police say the man appears to be in his 20s or 30s and is of average build.
Police have tried to talk to him in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English, but to no avail.
www.sptimes.com /2004/09/09/news_pf/Worldandnation/Fished_out_of_water__.shtml   (373 words)

  
 poets & poems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This stranger with steep-fl eyes who accepted my word-pleasures as though I'd written out a grocery list with the same six items for the hundredth time and had just said: "Don't forget milk--two percent." He found me that ordinary.
A stranger, and stranger in me too, this pleasure-taking I took in his abnegation, his smiling: "No." He could have said yes to the thing, just then; sluicing froth from the pinkish limits.
I know that the pages are sopping wet and getting very difficult to decipher--as is this terrible loss, the one that tore the word integument from me--a word I've had to look up in the dictionary, before and since.
www.poetryproject.com /poets&poems/stone.html   (423 words)

  
 New Wave Outpost Message Board - Hunters And Collectors:
I think they were trying to figure themselves out on that album, but I did love "Talking to a Stranger." "Throw Your Arms..." was another song that stood out.
"Talking to a Stranger" was a great introduction to their sound.
Turned out to be 'Talking to a Stranger' by Hunters and Collectors.
www.nwoutpost.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=737   (937 words)

  
 Christmas Eve..Story.."Old George & the Stranger"
That old truck has brand new...."George thought he was talking to the stranger, but the man had gone.
The thermos was on the desk, empty with a used coffee cup beside it.
George was taken aback by all the stranger had said.
members.aol.com /jesusandsue2/Page9.html   (1539 words)

  
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THERE'S A STRANGER IN YOUR HOUSE by Jerry McGuire On an average of six times a day, there's a stranger in your house, a stranger who has free access to your children and unlimited influence on their lives.
After all, that's what the stranger is all about.
It's preventing parents and children from talking together.
www.ewtn.com /library/FAMILY/STRANGER.TXT   (758 words)

  
 Sesame Workshop - Talking about Stranger Danger
Avoid scare tactics: It can be upsetting for a child to feel she lives in a dangerous world filled with strangers who are out to do her harm.
Talk about what's okay: Tell her, "When you're with Mom or Dad and someone you don't know says hello to you, it's nice to say hello back to them."
Talk about what's not okay: You can tell your child that most people are nice and friendly and want to help each other.
www.sesameworkshop.org /parents/solutions/communication/article.php?contentId=109402§ionKey=safety   (271 words)

  
 THE STRANGER
The stranger was quickly accepted and was around to welcome me into the world a few months later.
Sometimes Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to her room and read her books.
Still, if you were to walk into my parents' den today you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.
www.bpfrommer.com /The~Stranger.htm   (507 words)

  
 Malehealth : Stranger than a talking dog
She strikes up a conversation with someone she takes to be a waiting husband and is amazed - as we are - to find she’s talking to a fellow patient.
But talking to doctor is still easier than dying.
Breast Cancer Care have a helpline on 0808 800 6000 with male volunteers to talk to.
www.malehealth.co.uk /userpage1.cfm?item_id=1844   (1357 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hunters & Collectors: Music: Hunters & Collectors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Early 1982: Talking to a Stranger (who wasn't for me, as I was a newby there).
I was aware of their late 80s and early 90s commercial hits and had heard one or two earlier tracks like Talking to a Stranger, but I wasn't aware of just how innovative, uncompromising and "out there" they originally were...
Talking to a Stranger, Aligator Engine, Scream Who, and Watcher will please fans of the band's later efforts, echoing the sounds of bands like Blue Peter, XTC and the Boomtown Rats.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000B00I6?v=glance   (1051 words)

  
 Talking to the Press - CFO.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Many finance executives, on the other hand, are introverts, and they don't always feel at ease talking to a stranger who writes down their every word.
Although Kovacs herself is media savvy, many of her colleagues were intimidated by the prospect of talking to the press.
Your ultimate goal in talking with the press, observes Gentry, is not simply to answer questions, but to share your company's message.
www.cfo.com /printable/article.cfm/3013385?f=options   (1070 words)

  
 Just Well Mixed | Waiting in Line at the DMV Is An Eternity. Four Minutes Talking to A Stranger? Nah
My friend Ginger talked me into going along with her and one of her friends to a “speed dating” event the other night.
Then the two lines are set up so they’re facing each other, and you talk to whoever happens to be across from you for four minutes.
And the good ones were genuinely fun to talk to, which made up for the zeroes.
www.jasonlefkowitz.net /blog1archive/001812.html   (525 words)

  
 Talking to a Stranger
The link is that I've never grown out of my love of gardens and Sue Whyte has agreed to let me look at her garden.
They're both talking, first one, then the other, keeping up the flow, letting me into the secret of their other life.
Because it's not just camping they're talking about, it's about entering into a different life, in which they take on different identities, different names, different clothes.
homepages.poptel.org.uk /blahblahblah/sgtalking.html   (1237 words)

  
 WHSV | Stranger Danger
The stranger says, "Would you watch my puppy while I go get the park ranger?" Megan says, "Yeah!" Stranger responds with, "His name is Barney." "I know that!" says Megan while running to her mother.
Lauryn responds, "I haven't seen him!" She quickly returns to playing, continues talking to the stranger, but still glances in her mother's direction.
She follows him into a back part of the playground and that is a no-no. But when the stranger tries to get closer to her, she makes the right move.
www.whsv.com /news/headlines/129032.html   (561 words)

  
 Carter Center
While talking to a “stranger” may feel initially feel uncomfortable, psychotherapists attempt to create an environment of safety and trust from which problems can be looked at honestly.
Psychologists have to maintain confidentiality and cannot tell others about what they heard during therapy, only if the patient says that he or she is going to hurt themselves or someone else.
Ask you physician for a referral to psychotherapy if you feel that talking to someone about your problems will be helpful.
www.cartercenter.org /healthprograms/1942_adoc6.htm   (342 words)

  
 Stranger Danger Information For Parents, Children, Kids, and Teens
Strangers sometimes dress up like nice people, so don't talk to anyone.
talk to them, they could be a stranger in disguise.
strangers and even from people you know, especially when you are alone with them.
www.sssalas.com /StrangerDanger.html   (2372 words)

  
 New Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The presentation has two phases: one includes Billy who is a student riding on a tricycle talking with a stranger and Bobby, who is a police car.
Upon observing Billy talking with a stranger and preparing to accompany him, Bobby arrives on the scene with his siren sounding.
He talks with Billy about the practice of not talking to strangers.
www.naem.com /connection/4/mississippi4.html   (360 words)

  
 ABC7Chicago.com: Child lost in shuffle on first day of school ends up alone on playground
When he did not come home on the school bus his mother called police, who found the child on school grounds talking to a stranger.
The six-year-old, Daniel, was not injured but was scared after he got lost in the shuffle of the first day of kindergarten.
Police went to the school and found Daniel in the playground talking to a stranger.
abclocal.go.com /wls/story?section=News&id=2064625   (500 words)

  
 Fairy tales for everyone. Alexander Kalinkin. Fantasy fiction.
Yes, he was right - - the stranger would jump and laugh and the waves would talk joyfully.
And he would start talking to the stranger - - and the latter nodded to him, smiling and whispering something witty in his particular ocean manner.
And one day when they were talking that way the stranger came out of the abyss.
tales.faithweb.com /fantasy.html   (677 words)

  
 The Pacer - No stranger to the campus eye, Dean says he is ‘not your typical candidate’
No stranger to the campus eye, Dean says he is ‘not your typical candidate’
When you have the numbers of key student leaders and influential faculty members and administrators stored in your phone, it makes resolving conflict and implementing plans much easier.
Blog Search: Talking about "No stranger to the campus eye, Dean says he is ‘not your typical candidate’"
pacer.utm.edu /1758.htm   (214 words)

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