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...Russians), an embarrassingly mawkish pantomime called A Blind Woman, which Prima Ballerina Ulanova almost managed to make acceptable. But most of the evening was given over to acrobatics: spinning, headlong leaps into the arms of supporting male dancers; a vaulting lift in which Ballerina Struchkova balanced light as a gull on the arched chest of her partner; a delicate tracery of pirouettes executed at stunning speed by the Bolshoi's youngest ballerina, 19-year-old Ekaterina Maximova. Unfortunately, the dancers' technique was more impressive than their material: among the selections was a glass-beaded resurrection of Walpurgis Night...
...frozen tundra comes the Prince of Salestria, who wants to thaw out with Lulu in the same busy bed. Since Lulu is a cocotte, pleasure is business, but business is also her pleasure. For a 10% share of the loot, she agrees to fake marriage to Marcel to gull Marcel's godfather out of a fortune. When Philippe returns unexpectedly, the plot double-quickens...
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Carl D. Bradley breaking up and going down twelve miles southwest of Gull Island . . . Any ships please come . . . Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday...
Thanksgiving. The first light broke into the dirty black sky hours later. Mays thought he saw a sea gull. He looked again, saw the flashing lights of a Coast Guard twin-engined amphibian Albatross. The men tried to get up, to signal the plane, but in a moment it was gone. The raft drifted on. As the clouds broke before the sun. Fleming and Mays looked at their watches: 8:40. Then they looked at each other: their eyes were puffed, their faces red, their lips swollen, their hands cut and bruised. Yet, somehow, now that daylight had come, they...
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