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What whales and their dolphin kin will not declare, this extraordinary book celebrates. It is a collection, really an orchestration, of appreciative views of the great creatures. Sober scientific articles and elegiac poems, naturalists' reports and scholars' musings, pencil drawings and underwater photographs jumble together, but all gently point to the possibility that whales are geniuses. The conclusion, of course, is unproved, yet most readers are likely to be convinced of its plausibility. Those with a mystical bent may even end up agreeing with Melville that if God ever returns to this planet, he would come...
...pivoted on just how hellish that job will be. Tory Leader Edward Heath, who is now expected to step aside in favor of Party Chairman William Whitelaw, said it would be hellish indeed. During the final week of the campaign, he described the fall of the British economy in elegiac, black-bordered tones. "We shall be cutting our own throats if we think that collapse cannot happen here. It can." Heath argued that only a government of national union could deal with the country's problems and promised that if the Tories won he would call in other parties...
Even after publication of the billets doux, students of Jefferson described the affair as a platonic flirtation, despite Jefferson's classic love letter known as "My Head and My Heart." Written in one of his all too frequent depressions, it is an elegiac disquisition on the miracle of love-by a rationalist who did not believe in miracles...
...friends the Killer Bees; Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner in a Love Story with wheelchair called The Affair. There were also obvious borrowings from Hollywood hits-among the recent ones: several mini-Poseidon adventures with oddly assorted casts trapped in runaway trains and stalled elevators and even an elegiac western whose gimmick was readily apparent from the title, Mrs. Sundance...
Besides collaborating with Dennis Hopper on Easy Rider, Peter Fonda has directed one previous movie, a fine, elegiac western called The Hired Hand (1971). Like that earlier effort, Idaho Transfer has a grave, lovely feeling for the contours of the countryside. There is also, as in The Hired Hand, a simple, quite ravishing musical score by Bruce Langhorne, which mixes acoustic instrumentation with electronic effects. The scores of these two films alone should establish Langhorne as one of the best young pop musicians in the country. He is, hands down, one of the best film composers...