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Princess Anne of England, asked if she would like to be reincarnated as a princess: "No. I think I would like to come back as a dolphin...
...base of its plot the idea of the original assassins, the hashshashin, a bunch of hashheads who practiced contract murders at the behest of an "Old Man of the Mountains." We have had Three Days of the Condor, one Day of the Jackal, even a Day of the Dolphin-all equally preposterous and plausible, thanks to the strapped imaginations of real-life bureaucrats. Who but a hack could have thought up 1978's Bulgarian defector "poison umbrella" caper in London? The first time a dolphin is hauled in for questioning, who will giggle...
...galloped up Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. Even as rent-a-Revere was spreading the tidings last April, the first Anglo invaders were pouring off a chartered jet at the Miami International Airport. There they were welcomed by a high school band playing Rule, Britannia, Mickey Mouse, Flipper the Dolphin, a bicycle-riding parrot and the mayor of Miami Beach. Hizzoner grabbed the first couple to clear customs and bestowed on them Moët et Chandon champagne, a limousine ride to the Nautilus Hotel and the keys to the city, which in recent years has been sadly depressed...
Director Dorothy Lyman has meshed the two women's disparate natures with the controlled firmness of the potter's hand. Brennan has the personality of a vulnerable bulldozer, while Sarandon arcs over and under her emotional crises like a dolphin...
...years as an undergraduate, and I could never identify a set of critical principles that could claim his allegiance. So far as I could tell he did not need any. Literature was his element, and he no more needed an academic theory to deal with it than a dolphin needs swimming lessons. With the greatest sympathy and delicately discerning judgement he simply read the great poets. Of course, one reason he could be so persuasively dismissive of what he called "lit. crit." was that he had mastered the arcana of his own field before relegating them to his own critical...