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...butchering of a carcass on another ship. The whalers were unrepentant. With its income from North Sea oil, Norway has no economic reason to support its contemptuous stance on whaling. It is tragic that whales must suffer to satisfy the chauvinistic urges of a fanatical special-interest group. Greta Frankel Stockholm Having read your article on the possible resumption of whaling by some countries, I am appalled at how we humans have not learned the lessons of the past. Whalers kill these gentle giants by shooting them with harpoons tipped with grenades, which explode inside the whale's body. That...
...formula—start with Mag and add anything to the end.) This doesn’t even include the long list of names I could have been called if you follow the listings of alternate forms for Margaret in any baby book. Feel free to call me Gretel, Greta, Gretchen, Rita, Margie, Margery, Madge, Peg, Peggy, Pog, Maisie, Meg, Mog, and Daisy. Well, maybe not Pog—I’ve got to draw the line somewhere.The nickname and I have a very close, and often bizarre, relationship. I began to dread the appearance of substitute teachers...
...look at everyday subjects in new ways, then Jones is an excellent one, and Dreams takes flight, skipping from descriptions of sound waves to Cellophane with bravura flair. But it is the invention of the Lumiere brothers that most delights the author and her characters. Whether transmitted via Greta Garbo's laugh or screen Delilah Hedy Lamarr (who we learn helped patent a frequency-hopping radio-controlled torpedo during WW II), cinema's light becomes the counterpoint to the private sorrows of Mr. Sakamoto and his confidante. The novelist says her love of movies began...
...GRETA GARBO: THE SIGNATURE COLLECTION...
Famous on the Brattle’s screening menu are classics marathons and festivals such as the Bogart, Hitchcock, or Warner Brothers cartoon festivals. This month, the Greta Garbo Festival gave film lovers an opportunity to relive the glory days of this classic star. Great classics are often shown as part of double features; recently “Psycho”/“The Birds” were paired for the price of one admission...