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Back in Honolulu, on the other side of Oahu, the tiger-shark tagging is another high-tech effort to understand a different aspect of shark behavior. In 1992 two people were killed by tiger sharks in Hawaiian waters, the first such deaths there in three decades. An earlier spate of killings had provoked an all-out program to eradicate tiger sharks, but it was never clear whether that slaughter had been really effective...
...there is nothing academic about a tiger shark bobbing in the preternaturally clear Hawaiian sea. I am now in the water, and Meyer has released the measured, tagged shark. Another student stands by to help it get moving, but that turns out to be unnecessary. With an almost imperceptible flick of its muscular tail, the massive fish is suddenly ten yards away, a graceful, pale white torpedo gliding effortlessly down into the measureless blue depths. In the face of such beauty, dignity and grace, I almost forget my fear...
...amazing Blue Moon, by his trick of shifting, in a heartbeat, from saloon baritone to pants-too-tight wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). Listening to his notorious rendition of Hound Dog on Milton Berle's TV show, we can hear gasps and giggles from the audience and feel the career-threatening danger of his burlesque moves, almost...
Good citizen or bad Don Juan? Eddie Murphy was stopped by sheriff's deputies in L.A. at 4:45 a.m. with a transsexual prostitute in his car. The prostitute was arrested; the comedian wasn't. Murphy says the "beautiful Hawaiian-looking woman" asked him for a ride. "I was just concerned about her safety...
Avery's mad movies were about movement--motion exploded into violent emotion. In Magical Maestro an illusionist transforms an opera singer into a ballerina, an Indian, a widdle boy, a Hawaiian war chanter. As a wolf spies Red Hot Riding Hood, his tongue springs out zigzaggy and his eyes pop out in sections like a dozen contact lenses. No director, of cartoons or live action, vacuum-packed his gags as tightly as Avery...