Word: drogheda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scraped patches off his own Titian and Rubens, and was known to have destroyed a Watteau, in search of the "secrets" of the old masters. But his own paintings cooked themselves down to blistered wrecks, sometimes within the lifetime of the sitters. An elderly Irish rake, the Earl of Drogheda, returned to his native land after 30 years abroad, with a shattered constitution. He found that his youthful portrait by Reynolds was even more poxed, corrupt and wrinkled than he had become. One might say it is to Joshua Reynolds, rather than Oscar Wilde, that / the portrait of Dorian Gray...
Beats me why they couldn't just bundle the whole crew up and send them to Australia and get the scenery for free. The upshot is that everything on the station, called Drogheda, looks a bit wrong: wrong tools, wrong guns, wrong gates and so on. Believe it or not, they've even got singing shearers. Never mind, the Yanks won't notice. They like television to look cheap even when it's expensive...