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Peter Benchley's 1974 best seller, Jaws, starred the shark that ate Long Island, became a smashing film and inspired a school of sequels. After some dry runs, the novelist has taken the plunge again. Beast (Random House; 350 pages; $21) features tentacles rather than mandibles. Otherwise it is the familiar mixture: lethal creature, relentless pursuers and vast quantities of saline solution. When waters off Bermuda become the killing grounds of a giant squid, tourism collapses. Whereupon an Ahabian fisherman, Whip Darling, clambers into a submarine and leads the hunt. All the old ingredients are present, from aqua horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Reading | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

WHAT ABOUT BOB? John Candy usually plays the man who came to dinner and stayed too long (and ate too much), but this time Bill Murray is the nerd determined to stick to his psychiatrist like Krazy Glue. Murray and Richard Dreyfuss are terrific in Frank Oz's pretty good comedy of discomfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jun. 24, 1991 | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...ate a lot of alligator food, which I had never tasted before--even 'gator' burgers," Buxeda says. "It's pretty good--something like a cross between pork and chicken...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: WACKY WAYS TO KILL A WEEK | 6/5/1991 | See Source »

While small groups sat on blankets and ate picnic lunches, others took advantage of the free sandwiches and tea provided by an organization called Food Not Bombs...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: Love Is in the Air . . . | 5/10/1991 | See Source »

...Comiskey, here the upper deck is a graceful incline, not a mountain climb with Sherpa guides. Downtown Baltimore is always in view, from the Bromo-Seltzer clock tower behind left field to the massive, restored brick warehouse in right field that will become a 460-ft.-from-home-pl ate target. (Already the Orioles are searching for lefthanded sluggers with "warehouse power.") The homage to old ball parks can be seen in such < retro touches as the exposed steel support beams, the irregular configuration of the outfield angles and arches that open wide to embrace the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking The Field of Dreams | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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