“Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?”

— Tracey Ullman

"Tracking Tracey" http://www.dareland.com/emulsionalproblems/ullman.htm (Interview, January 1989)

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