Nigel Pickard, head of BBC children's programmes, once dismissed an American kids' show carefully adapted for British viewers with the words: "Blue's Clues is based on US educational principles".But even as Europeans mutter about the vulgarising force of American culture, they are busy enriching themselves by peddling one of the tawdriest popular genres to the Americans: reality TV.
Since the clues are based on the creator's obsessive knowledge of 1980s trivia and gaming culture, this futuristic pursuit is of course also an exercise in nostalgia, packed with pop-cultural references from Space Invaders to John Hughes movies.
The plot for my book centers on a deadly treasure hunt in which the clues are based on an ancient Celtic spell, so it seemed logical to set the action in some of the places where the mythic events occurred.
For example, if the theme clues are based on famous crossword puzzlers and you do not know much about it, look up "crosswords" on Wikipedia.
It is based on clues gathered over years of engagement in a cat and mouse game that has turned up things like Iraqi photographs of animals sacrificed to biological warfare experiments.
Ms. Huden was the anthrax index patient -- the pivot point upon which every outbreak investigation is based, the crucial clue that every medical investigator hopes can be found, and fast.
Factitious disorders must be differentiated from malingering; an important clue for this is that malingering is based on a real individual motivation (avoiding work, military or social duty, prison; obtaining material recompense, cost reparation, drugs), while patients suffering from factitia need medical care and support, claiming attention from medical staff and members of their own families.
First, our model is based on fragmental clues from different cells and species.
Apple has no clue who you are based on this data.
The episode borrows heavily from the 1985 comedy film Clue, which itself was based on the 1976 comedy film "Murder by Death," and is largely based upon the 1939 Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None.
