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...retired from itinerant laboring to Hermanus, a pleasant tourist mecca on the Cape, where he spends his days blowing a kelp horn to attract whales for his own amusement. Then Saluni, the alluring, tempestuous town drunk, moves into his shack, curbs her boozing and tries to civilize his slovenly bachelor ways. But she soon grows jealous of a migrating female that the Whale Caller spends hours serenading. "That stupid fish has castrated you," Saluni howls. It's a mammal, he corrects, ineffectually. This improbable triangle ripens gently until its heart-breaking conclusion. Meanwhile, the new, tourism-obsessed, environmentally threatened South...
Weah holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sports Management and has no previous government experience yet he is the current front-runner...
...lack of space. The Union was a true core of college life, as many alumni now confirm. “I don’t remember wanting for social space,” says Thomas C. Frietzche ’67, though he does recall one raucous bachelor party thrown in the Kirkland Basement for want of a better location. A more recent loss for freshman was the replacement of the Crimson Sports Grille with Redline in 2002. Laurence P. Noonan ’03 remembers spending countless nights at the Grille, which was known for freshmen and cheap beer...
Summers is the first bachelor to occupy the president’s office at Harvard since John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789, according to “Harvard Rules,” a critique of Summers’ presidency by journalist Richard Bradley...
...earlier films established Wallace (voiced by veteran Brit character actor Peter Sallis) as a vague, cheerful bachelor, whose obsession for dreaming up elaborate contraptions almost equals his fondness for cheese. (Wallace's bookshelf, as seen in Were-Rabbit, contains such volumes as East of Edam, Brie Encounter and Fromage to Eternity.) Gromit, his master's fretful servant and savior, is mute. He conveys his always justified anxiety via minute twitches of the most eloquent movie eyebrows since Groucho's. At the climax of each film, Wallace's handyman hubris has put the duo in an awful dilemma that...