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...somewhat peculiar title refers to the disastrous confluence of a large hurricane and a muscular nor'easter in the fishing grounds off New England and Newfoundland in 1991. The Andrea Gail, a 72-ft. offshore commercial swordfish boat, sank with its crew of six men in the monstrous confusion of air and water that resulted. A small sailboat, the Satori, also sank, though its crew was saved, and so did a powerful rescue helicopter that ran out of fuel, ditched and lost one crewman...
...that fear of the unknown prevents people from visits to the MAC, with its collection of monstrous pre-Jurassic machines. The nautilus room, at first glance, seems a more effective torture chamber than any the fictional Prince Humperdink ever dreamed up. In fact, the "life sucking torture machine" to which our hero Westley is subjected springs to mind when I think of the MAC weight room...
...dwarf and overshadow the latters creativity. Sometimes we regret our decisions, like when the National Football League dropped its failed experiment with instant replay. Other times, we seem overtaken by those choices, as in a world where live operators seem to have been totally and permanently replaced by monstrous touch-tone information menus...
...bully that may be coming, because kids can be monsters." But Clark had no way of anticipating that when the world turned ugly for his son on the evening of March 21, there would be three bullies, not one. Nor did he know that they would be so monstrous: slamming Lenard's head against a wall, beating him into a coma and leaving him lying in an alley before going home to brag how they had taken care of the "niggers" in their neighborhood. When Lenard's father arrived at Chicago's Cook County Hospital, his boy "looked like...
...though mud wrestling in pigment. De Kooning could find metaphors of energy that none of his contemporaries could rival. And when he carried his "impurity" beyond the decorum of abstraction, as in the great women of the early to mid-'50s, he produced some extraordinarily intense images--funny, monstrous and laden with anxiety, rendered with a kind of desperate verve. "I find I can paint pretty young girls," he remarked, "yet when it is finished I always find they are not there, only their mothers"--more likely his own mother Cornelia, that coarse dockland sibyl...