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These amusements are complicated by the fact that the native tongue of the players is not English but Doggese, a kind of revisionist lingo in which words have arbitrarily assigned meanings. When someone says "Sun-dock-trog-pan-slack," he is counting from one to five...
BARC certainly whizzes through its first tongue-teasing test, but dock, trog, pan and slack are still to come. As for Stoppard, this time it is hard to say whether he preys on words or words prey...
...warehouses (the British call them "go-downs") for them. Inside the boats are shelves no more than 4 feet long and 12 inches high. People are crammed into these shelves after they pay their $10,000 to get out of Vietnam--and they don't move until the boat docks at Hong Kong or Malaysia or elsewhere. They relieve themselves in their cubbyholes for the entire 600-mile trip. The man from Immigration calls them "professional refugees," conditioned by an endless war and sent packing in an atmosphere far worse. Their stares are vacant when they arrive at the docks...
...figure around Mullaghmore, where he had vacationed for 35 years. He could sometimes be seen standing knee-deep in the waters offshore, fishing for shrimp, and occasionally took local children for a ride on his 27-ft. fishing vessel, Shadow V. This day he pulled up to the boat dock around 11:30 a.m. for what promised to be a superb day of cruising. Joining him were his daughter, Lady Patricia Braourne, 55, her husband Lord Brabourne, 54, their twin sons Timothy and Nicholas, 14, and Lord Brabourne's mother, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, 82. An Ulster schoolboy, Paul...
...boat, surprisingly, was left unguarded. It was moored with (about a dozen other small craft at the public dock, and it would have been a simple task for a terrorist to slip through the shadows and plant a bomb on it. That apparently is what happened. Police last week charged two men from the Irish Republic, Francis McGirl, 24, and Thomas McMahon, 31, with Mountbatten's murder. In a strange twist of circumstance, both men had been detained two hours before the bomb on Mountbatten's boat went off, at a routine roadside checkpoint 70 miles away...