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...great ship and its trove of Edwardian-era relics have been shielded from the destructive effects of sunlight, heat, algae and parasites. "If you had your wildest dream of how you were going to find that ship, that is exactly how we found it," said an ebullient Robert Ballard, expedition leader and a marine geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "It is a museum piece...
...teenage use are not available, local surveys in Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Massachusetts suggest that between 20% and 40% of high school boys are chewing or dipping. No less worrisome is the finding, in Texas, that 55% of young dippers started before age 13. Says an exasperated Ann Ballard, a high school teacher in Houston: "I'm tired of finding cups filled with brown spit littered about the classroom...
...unusual life story, to sustain a one-person show. Lena Home did it for more than a year on Broadway by describing her travails as a black actress confronting Hollywood racism. Peggy Lee closed, five nights after the opening, with her reminiscence about losing stardom and finding religion. Kaye Ballard lasted ten unprofitable weeks off-Broadway this spring with a lively yet sometimes bitter recollection of her decades-long struggle to impress her mother. Compared with them, MacLaine is at a disadvantage: she has little suffering to recall. Indeed, she says, "In my mind, nothing really bad has ever happened...
Noting that the official logo "is very hard to read," one insider says the Yale Co-op offers a more standard football-shaped emblem crafted by a clerk there. In fact, Co-op President Dick Ballard reports brisk business, listing the numerous items on which their logo appears: "It is on everything. From the preppy button-down shirts to the LaCoste-looking shirts to the sweat-shirts to t-shirts to glasses--highballs and shot glasses--to lucite letter openers. These are sold exclusively at the Yale...
...typing a work report. By the end of the film he is running stark naked in the midst of a stampeding herd of caribou. Neither scenes are models of scientific investigation--let alone verisimilitude--but they serve admirable to frame Mowat's journey into awareness through the medium of Ballard's slightly surreal vision. If at times the meshing of beguiling photography with the Tangerine Dream-like score begins dangerously to suggest Jean-Jacques Beneix's slideshow of an imaginary Yukon trip, at least Ballard errs on the side of elegance...