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...shark to the 18-m (60-ft.) whale shark -- the world's biggest fish -- they boast keen intelligence and some of the sharpest senses in the ocean. Many of the 350 species are capable of hearing a wriggling fish up to a mile away, and most can smell the merest trace of blood in the ocean. The shark's eyes work like night-vision goggles, seeing well in dark water...
...Lynch's first flat-out comedy; he and his ensemble (including Diane Ladd and Crispin Glover) work at high pitch and have a swell time at it. Wild at Heart is also the first Lynch film in which his motives -- to hang a haberdashery of bizarre incidents on the merest hook of plot -- are apparent. You might go, "Ick!" but you won't ask, "Huh?" What's lacking is the old sense of delicious, disturbing mystery. Wild at Heart reveals a master of movie style on his way to becoming a mannerist...
Herrera has fashioned a demure tweed costume with the merest sigh of a skirt and rust-colored crushed-velvet tights -- guaranteed to conquer any corporate board. But she cautions against the indiscriminate use of patterns. "They have to be very special," she says. "Otherwise you look as if you have a terrible disease on your legs...
...until 1967, when Israel captured the Mount and the Old City. Eager to preserve peace, Israel continues to allow Muslims to administer the site. They permit no Jew or Christian to pray openly on the holy ground, nor will they consider allowing even the simplest synagogue or church. The merest hint of rebuilding the Temple is considered an outrage by the Prophet's followers, who, in the words of an official at Al Aqsa, "will defend the Islamic holy places to the last drop of their blood...
...have inherited his father Evelyn's racism if not his genius, visited Sydney for the Australian bicentennial. "They had no form of civil society at all, beyond whatever social organization may be observed in a swarm of locusts," he wrote of the Aborigines. Their art "must be judged the merest piffle by civilized standards...