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...raising the 418-ton Greenpeace ship from a shallow harbor is one thing, rescuing the 46,328-ton Titanic from 2 1/2 miles of ocean quite another. Says Keith Jessop, the Yorkshire diver who in 1981 salvaged $80 million in gold bullion from the World War II battleship H.M.S. Edinburgh: "You can't even speak of them in the same breath...
Donald Weir (bag pipes) -- From Edinburgh, Scotland, he has been in this country for only two weeks. His schedule is loose, but Weir says plans to play regularly until Aug. 24. His show is somewhat of a novelty and is not to be missed...
...reporter, an elderly door attendant angrily said that Ustinov had died. Official confirmation came several hours later from Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended his trip to Britain a day early in order to return to Moscow. "We have had a great and tragic loss," Gorbachev explained before leaving Edinburgh. "Marshal Ustinov, our old friend and comrade-in-arms, has passed away...
Unfortunately Brady does not always adequately make the connection between Boswell's personality and his surroundings. We don't get too much of an idea of what Boswell's Edinburgh or London were like, an odd characteristic given Brady's argument that London played a significant role in determining Boswell's mood. And the little bit of London that we do see finds Brady slipping into the same trap that misleads all too many 18th century scholars. London may have had many sordid aspects, the extensive prostitution as an example, but there was also much beauty to the city...
...nitpick, one feels another shortcoming is the dearth of illustrations accompanying the text to enliven the famous names. Many prominently mentioned members of Boswell's circle, Goldsmith, Burke, Temple, and most egregiously Boswell's father, wife and children, are not included. Neither, of course, are paintings of London or Edinburgh...