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Nature should have told him that when he heads south from Alaska during his herd's annual autumn migration to warmer water, he has to bear right at San Francisco. Instead, the 40-ton, 40-ft. humpback whale turned left and headed inland under the Golden Gate Bridge. For more than a week he has been swimming aimlessly in the shallow Sacramento River delta 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, a freshwater environment that eventually may kill the giant saltwater mammal...
...most difficult task will be to come up with an overall plan for how the various parts of a Star Wars defense will work together. Last year SDIO challenged companies to enter what it called a horse race to devise the best Star Wars blueprint. A herd of 300 firms submitted initial applications, but SDIO narrowed the field to five, each of which will receive a $5 million grant to work on its designs. They include three major defense contractors --Rockwell, TRW and Martin Marietta--and two small electronics companies, Sparta of Huntsville, Ala., and Science Applications of La Jolla...
...Woodrow Call are descended from the noble buddy system of American literature. Exotically paired males, like Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook, Ishmael and Queequeg, Huck and Jim, fling themselves at the wilderness and sooner or later paddle into the mainstream. McCrae and Call join the mythic flow by stealing a herd of Mexican cattle and driving them from Texas to Montana. Why leave semiretirement and undertake a journey better suited for younger men? One answer is that Lonesome Dove would be a dull book if the two remained proprietors of the Hat Creek Cattle Co. & Livery Emporium ("GOATS AND DONKEY...
...battle they can win. In more general terms, these soccer riots might even be pinned on politics: the European Cup seen as Europe's latest intramural war. Or sex: Could the scene in Brussels be the re-enactment of the rape of Italy by a frothing, snorting herd? Or chance: if you cannot control the outcome of a game, at least you can control the fight. Who, in such a discussion, would omit mention of the nuclear threat: people are scared to death by tension; therefore they stomp on others...
...basic, good B-moviemaking in the process. Rustler's Rhapsody tries to sell itself so hard that it sells itself short. The wild west madcap parody is a building block which just cannot support such a deadweight movie. Without more, Rustler's Rhapsody becomes about as funny as a herd of cattle in Spurr, Texas...