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...this latest love, reportedly confiding in a friend the day before her death, "For the first time in my life I can say I am really happy...I again feel loved." These words strike the ear as naively trusting, almost childlike. For a woman fated to die an imminent, hideous death, they have the ring of unbearable pathos...
Princess Diana's funeral was of this order. Of course it was a spontaneous outburst of grief for a much loved young woman who died too soon and with hideous violence. But if it was also something of a demonstration, it was not necessarily a demonstration of anything except howling grief...
...sharks, the rate of scientific discovery is far outpaced by the rapid growth of shark fisheries worldwide. Some shark populations may be destroyed by overexploitation before scientists even have a chance to study them. Public awareness and sympathy for sharks may ultimately prove the most effective weapon against hideous practices such as live finning and the destruction of sharks for their cartilage resulting from the baseless claims of pill pushers. To find out more about current shark research, visit the shark-research Website at www2.hawaii. edu/~carlm/tigershark.html CARL MEYER Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Kaneohe, Hawaii...
...subway platform. A brilliant scientist who has recently used genetic engineering to eradicate an epidemic, Susan is not smart enough to realize she's in a horror movie and ought to be wary of approaching a tall, hooded stranger to ask the time. The stranger turns and reveals its hideous face--ewwww, a killer cockroach! It enfolds Susan in its great wings and flies off into the subway's dank underworld...
...Synge. His macabre, wildly funny and over-the-top tragicomedies are slightly absurdist, set in remote parts of rural Ireland and peopled with comic grotesques--or literal grotesques, like the title character in Cripple, whom a young actor, Ruaidhri Conroy, plays with a convulsive total body limp of hideous and breathtaking precipitousness...