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...this daunting course will remain both a beauty and a beast: thanks to the extreme undulations of these links, even the lowest handicap players have to play the majority of their fairway shots without being able to see their target. Get to Islay on flights from Glasgow (two per day unless the Scottish mist intervenes) or by ferry from Kennacraig on the Mull of Kintyre. And save time for some of the seven local distilleries: those who are let off lightly by the Machrie can drink a dram or two in celebration; for the rest of us they offer...
...develop the Machrie Hotel, which serves as clubhouse and 19th hole. "If it goes well," says manager Ian Brown, "future visitors will be able to experience a course very similar to the one that Vardon and Co. played." But this daunting course will remain both a beauty and a beast: thanks to the extreme undulations of these links, even the lowest handicap players have to play the majority of their fairway shots without being able to see their target. Get to Islay on flights from Glasgow (two per day unless the Scottish mist intervenes) or by ferry from Kennacraig...
...colorful and poignant tale, but in Lycett's hands it goes on too long. The book would benefit from fewer pub crawls and more pointed analysis, especially of the poetry, on which Lycett is perfunctory. Thomas once said, "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me." Lycett gives us plenty of the beast and the madman. The angel is scarcely glimpsed. --By Christopher Porterfield
...released on both sides of the Atlantic, it has been written in the boundless language of wordless comix, except for the chapter headings that appear in four different languages. It features the creature of the title, a giant sperm whale, as it swims through disparate oceans, encountering man and beast through the ages. Foregoing a traditional story, it reads like Neptune's dream after a night of bad sushi. Harder depicts the whale as a fearsome monster, a silent behemoth that rules the seas. He battles a giant squid, dinosaurs, The Pequod from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," the Titanic...
...mountain-surrounded gorge hosting the North American Women’s Championships. But on a list of the best things to do there this week, sailing probably would not have been at the top. It was beautiful, but the breezeless waters and their strong currents were something of a beast...