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TELEVISION REVIEW; Bonny skip across time; With a relaxed pace and first-rate cast, 'Outlander' hits a high point in the 1743 Scottish Highlands
With her experience of battlefield surgery and her botany degree, she sets herself up quickly as a kind of Dr. Claire, Medicine Woman, and with the history and spycraft she picked up from her husband added to her considerable native smarts, she manages to navigate life in the castle, which, among stirrings of revolution -- we are on the eve of the Second Jacobite Rebellion -- also has a she-likes-him-but-he-likes-her component.
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'Outlander' more dreamy than drama
Readers of the novels may feel a stronger impulse to lock in; for me, the show is mildly entertaining at best, with a few pluses -- unusual story lines, particularly the one set after World War II, some gorgeous scenery, and one or two likable performances -- counterbalanced by a few negatives.
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Starz in the making; Cable outsider pins its hopes on 'Outlander's' passionate pair
Based on the first in a series of bestsellers by professor-turned-author Diana Gabaldon and developed by Ronald D. Moore of \"Battlestar Galactica\" fame, \"Outlander\" follows the adventures of Claire Randall, a feisty English combat nurse who, shortly after the end of World War II, takes a second honeymoon to the Scottish Highlands with her husband, Frank, a historian (played by Tobias Menzies).
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Tube Talk -- 'Outlander' books come to life on Starz 1/2
Claire, played by Caitriona Balfe in Starz's \"Outlander,\" is an English nurse fresh off five years on the battlefields of World War II, where she was up to her elbows in the blood of British soldiers.
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A fantasy of being heard
Anna, a college student who was sexually assaulted during her freshman year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, told the New York Times about the frustrations of testifying about her experience before the school's disciplinary panel: \"I felt like I was talking to someone who knew nothing of any sort of social interaction; what happens at parties; what happens in sex.\"
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