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...show, The Act does not deserve it. The book is dental floss inserted with tedious hygienic monotony so as to clear a space for the next molar crunch of song and dance. It is the tale of Michelle Craig (Minnelli) who became a film star slavishly dependent on her producer-husband, Dan Connors (Barry Nelson), lost him and flopped. She is now trying to re gain her career and born-again self-reliance with a nightclub act in Las Vegas - which is what The Act is about...
Jimmy Buffett's last two albums have been a little more glossy than crustacean. Forebodings of trespassed territory emerge from the back cover of "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time"--it's 1974, right? and Jaws is more than an aching molar in the back of Peter Benchley's mouth, right? and a great white shark is slithering through clear green water on the back cover, about to swallow the credits and titles...
...some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive. There you will be, stuck on some molar of rock, the dummy of the Windward Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program. An instructor is put on board: a local sailor from St. Vincent or its neighboring island Bequia (pronounced, with...
...pachyderms prime targets for poachers eager to supply a financially stable product used for curio carving, electronic insulators and piano keys. The demand is so great that recently the price of ivory has gone from $14 to $72 a kilo-even elephant teeth today bring $21 a molar. As a result, poaching elephants for their tusks and teeth has become more lucrative than ever. Game officials estimate that in the next 18 months 10% of Kenya's more than 70,000 elephants will be killed by ivory hunters. Many of the victims will be young females because their ivory...
Arnold D. Lewis, head of the preparation laboratory of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, found the jaw bone and molar during an expedition to Lake Rudolph in Northern Kenya in 1967. The find was not announced until yesterday because extensive research was needed to determine the age of the fossil...