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Hazelwood's curious journey from villain to victim is not yet complete. The Coast Guard is expected to seek the revocation of his captain's license, and he remains a co-defendant with his former employer in more than 100 civil damage suits that will keep lawyers overpaid for years. After the jury rendered its verdict, Hazelwood talked wistfully about going back to sea. "That's what I do," he said. His attorney suggested he might even try to persuade Exxon to reinstate his client as skipper of an oil tanker. As unlikely as that now seems...
Violence in language has become almost as casual as the possession of handguns. The curious notion has taken hold that emphasis in communicating is impossible without the incessant use of four-letter words. Some screenwriters openly admit that they are careful not to turn in scripts that are devoid of foul language lest the classification office impose the curse of a G (general) rating. Motion-picture exhibitors have a strong preference for the R (restricted) rating, probably on the theory of forbidden fruit. Hence writers and producers have every incentive to employ tasteless language and gory scenes...
...curious feature of the Salk plan raised considerable nonmedical controversy last week, when it became known that Roman Catholic nuns and priests had been asked to volunteer to test the Salk vaccine. Searching for volunteers, U.S.C. turned to Roger Mahony, the Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles. University officials explained that "persons with the lowest possible risk" of AIDS infection would be most desirable, and that those committed to celibacy would be ideal. Mahony thereupon sent a letter to all nuns and priests in the archdiocese, asking those 65 or older to consider signing up for Salk's shots. When...
...waved the flag of pre-revolutionary Russia. Beneath the banner stood two young men in czarist military uniforms and two older men -- a grizzled Soviet army colonel in a karakul hat who proudly displayed an icon in a gilt- and-silver frame, and a gray-bearded orator who harangued curious bystanders over a megaphone. In a rambling tirade, the speaker called for the spiritual renewal of Russia, denouncing "Jewish Marxists" for masterminding the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which destroyed "all that was sacred to the Russian people...
...could be just another fleeting relaxation craze that attracts the curious and eventually bores them, like the flotation-tank phenomenon of the early 1980s. Not everyone likes the sensations the new stress-reduction machines produce. Complained a visitor to a Japanese salon: "It's like listening to an alarm clock all the time." Nonetheless, in this fast-paced era, professionals may turn on to new ways of combating stress -- especially since the habit will not show up in random drug tests...