Word: icebergs
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Fine, Jim--build the damned ship, sink the damned ship. But in the 90 or so minutes before the iceberg slices open the starboard side, some compelling romantic fiction is in order. Here the film fails utterly. It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate...
...Iceberg lettuce from California...
Sanchez and other members of Congress, however, seemed only the tip of the iceberg among the victims of Dornan's wrath...
...apartment, though, is just the tip of the iceberg. This is also the time for Serious Life Decisions. I had initially counted myself among the lucky that I do not have the looming decision about whether to break off a long-term relationship at graduation. Without that complexity in my life, I thought that the transition to the Real World would be simple: all I would have to do is show up at my job and do what I am told...
Though all such otherworldly erupting is dramatic, it amounts to little more than geological pyrotechnics. On Europa, however, tidal heating may have produced something truly remarkable. The formations Galileo spotted last week are definitely icebergs, though less jagged-looking than those found on Earth. Astronomers don't know why Europan ice and terrestrial ice would not fracture the same way, but they admit they have no experience with the kinds of cracks that are produced when an entire world is frozen over. More to the point, the bergs are small, rising just 300 to 600 ft. above the surrounding...