Word: grimm
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Based on an especially grisly Brothers Grimm fairy tale, the Juniper Tree libretto, by Children's Author Arthur Yorinks, recounts the fable of an evil stepmother (Mezzo Ruby Hinds) who murders her stepson (Soprano Lynn Torgove) and serves the dismembered boy to his father (Baritone Sanford Sylvan) in a stew. His spirit reincarnated as a bird, the boy takes his revenge by dropping a millstone on the stepmother and is joyfully restored to his father and half sister. Watching over all is the juniper tree, in which dwells the benign spirit of the boy's real mother...
Among the undaunted was Jack Grimm, a restless Texas oil millionaire who previously had searched for quarries less tangible than the Titanic: Noah's Ark, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Between 1980 and 1983 he lavished $2 million on three elaborate Titanic expeditions, masterminded by Columbia University Marine Geologist William Ryan and Fred Spiess of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Using prototypes of the Knorr- Suroit sonar technology and submersible cameras, Ryan and Spiess mapped large swatches of ocean floor and took intriguing images of something that Grimm, at least, is convinced resembled the propeller...
...quantity of treasure, including diamonds and other jewels, that may be on board. Commercial Union, a British insurance company descended from the original underwriters of the ship, may have some legal right to the booty, assuming that it can document having paid out a given amount in claims. Grimm maintains that because his expeditions had narrowed the search and his data was given to Ballard, he is at least partly responsible for the discovery. He plans to launch a salvage operation next summer. "I don't see any objection to diving down there," he says. "I'd sure love...
Nearly everybody, including Grimm, agrees that raising the entire Titanic would be both technologically and financially unthinkable. Yet at least one salvage expert may be ready to give it a try. He is Britain's John Pierce, who designed an array of inflatable canvas bags to lift the Rainbow Warrior from the bottom of Auckland harbor in New Zealand after it had been sunk by a terrorist bomb. According to accounts in the British press, Pierce has suggested a similar approach for the Titanic. But raising the 418-ton Greenpeace ship from a shallow harbor is one thing, rescuing...
...Grimm was the first representative to lose an expulsion appeal this semester