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...wail of the ship's siren. In one of the Maxim Gorky's restaurants, as the pianist was playing The Green, Green Grass of Home, a heavy loudspeaker crashed down on the instrument. The passengers, almost all West German pensioners who had boarded in Bremerhaven, stumbled on deck into freezing...
This joint commercial venture between historic enemies takes place in one of the earth's chillier, less hospitable locales. And when a huge net full of an incoming catch drops the body of Zina Patiashvili onto the deck of the Polar Star, the whole enterprise becomes icier still. Patiashvili had been a popular member of the Polar Star work force, dishing up food in the mess and making herself available to a goodly number of male comrades on board and, so rumor has it, to more than a few visiting American fishermen...
...area was to floods and low water. The water level has at last been controlled by a network of locks, dams and reservoirs. The Normandie, 300 ft. long and weighing 1,375 tons, was especially built for the voyage. With 53 double staterooms, lounge, bar, restaurant, sun deck and sauna, it carried 106 passengers, 20 crew members and pounds of monkfish, duck, pork and other essentials, replenished along...
Inconsistencies abound. The Joker falls into a vat of toxic slime that eats the skin off his body but doesn't damage his signature deck of cards; when he gaily vandalizes some classic paintings, the film spells the museum's name two different ways; and when he starts tossing $20 million in cash onto the street, the good people of Gotham don't go into a looting frenzy and attack his perch. More important, the picture's first hour poses one big question: How will ace photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) react when she learns that Bruce is Batman...
...center of the excitement was the first dual-deck videotape recorder available to U.S consumers, the VCR-2, made by the tiny Arizona-based Go-Video company. The VCR-2 enables its users to make high-quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. It also lets viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the air. Go-Video hopes to have a limited supply of the VCR-2 in stores by Christmastime, priced at just under...