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...articulate about this," she adds. "1 know things intuitively more than I know them verbally, but my instincts are sharp. I do a one-liner that says it: "Have you ever seen a man walk up to four women sitting together in a bar and say, 'Hey, what are you doing here all alone?' " Still, she does not intrude her sexual politics into the show, and she makes fun of everyone, feminists included. "What," she asks, "would be your position on women's lib if you were a passenger on the Titanic...
...APRIL 16, 1912 edition of the New York American proclaimed the news of history's most famous nautical disaster in typical fashion. Right below a banner headline that announced the sinking of the British luxury liner Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, the American sadly told the world of the drowning of John Jacob Astor, prominent financier and pillar of New York society. Subsequent paragraphs of the story dealt with the equally shattering deaths of Archibald Butt, President Taft's military advisor, and Harry Elkins Widener of library fame. The news of the 1499 others who perished in the numbing...
...Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic!, the latest beneficiary of the public's nostalgic obsession with all things old, decaying or dead, now stands at number two on The New York Times Best Seller List, and seems certain to net its author enough money to buy an ocean liner of his own. Part of its appeal is probably misplaced: those drawn to the book expecting new tales of aristocratic bravery in the face of death are bound for disappointment, for Cussler has simply used the old wreck as a pawn in a far-fetched modern spy thriller. But the book...
...disagree with your labeling the San Antonio News an ignoble fish wrapper. The News would probably make a good bird-cage liner or emergency umbrella. I prefer to confine my reading to the San Antonio Light and, of course, TIME...
Like a lot of silly movies, Voyage of the Damned is extracted from a serious idea-in this case one with historical foundation. In 1939, as part of a propaganda effort, the Nazis bundled Jews from all levels of German life, privileged to deprived, onto a Hamburg-Amerika liner, the St. Louis. The ship was bound out of Hamburg to Havana, Cuba, where the passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with...