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...Caribbean cruise ship, its controls fritzed by a mad computer genius (there's no other kind in the movies these days) and set on a collision course first with a loaded oil tanker, then with a resort island? No, this is not a scenario that haunts our sleepless nights...
...Nichols, of his single-handed sail from Falmouth, England, most of the way, but not all the way, to Maine. As Nichols puts to sea in dodgy weather, the reader in his armchair considers omens (a necessary and enjoyable preliminary to the sport of reading about other people's mad adventures). Nichols is a highly experienced professional sailor, and Toad, his engineless 27-ft. sloop, is as strong and seaworthy as he and his ex-wife, whom he calls J., could make it. But now the marriage has broken up, and Nichols plans to put Toad up for sale. Before...
...planned sitcom. His new CD features a Mars and Venus song co-written by that Renaissance man Gray himself and performed as a sort of call and response by his-and-her vocalists. (Sample lyrics: Her: "Every time I try to tell you something, you get mad and run off to your cave." Him: "You're so up and down with your emotions...
...remember any sexual escapades that had any impact on what the Army calls "good order and discipline," something we regularly tried and failed to undermine in other ways with such lame schemes as attempting to drive Lieut. Sweeney mad by saluting him lefthanded...
AMARILLO: Oprah Winfrey ought to know that the state that used to hang rustlers and horse thieves is no place to to be reckless with insults. When she turned vegetarian on the air last year during a piece about mad cow disease, cattle prices plummeted. Along with 12 other ranchers, cattle feeder Paul Engler (who lost $6.7 million as a result) is now suing Winfrey under a 1995 Texas law that protects agricultural products from slander. Her fateful words? "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" No point in horsing around. Winfrey may be able to settle...