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...sailors seem up to their challenge. Desmond Hampton, 41, a handsome London real estate broker, has chartered the 56-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth V from the family of the late Sir Francis Chichester. Hampton's only companion will be a tiny stuffed koala bear presented to him for good luck by his daughter. Guy Bernardin, 37, a French business executive who will skipper the 38-ft. Ratso II, accepts the loneliness of the long-distance sailor. "For a race such as this," he says, "you must clear out all the responsibilities in your life. Anything can happen. You must...
...degree or another, these devices all work; there are no duds. But it's a losing battle, and no one gets much help from Shakespeare; all the characters talk as if, in the vexed exclamation of Marshall as the page Moth, "they have been at a great banquet of languages, and stole the scraps...
...support in the House for any budget that reflects his compromise proposals, Reagan must attract more Democrats than the 40 conservative "Boll Weevils" who helped him pass last year's tax and budget cuts. Reason: a number of the moderate "Gypsy Moth" Republicans from the Northeast and Midwest, wary of both deficits and further trims in social spending, are not likely to back him as solidly this year...
...then they steal the center of attention completely, and Woyzeck becomes a story told entirely in light, without words, an aural equivalent of the children's show Laserium. Words here do not tell, they sigh and flicker: and the ancestry they bring out in us is less monkey than moth...
...Mockery Bird really will die out, and with it the island. For, in a chain of interdependence as outlandish as nature itself, the Mockeries feed on the fruit of the Ombu tree, remove its outer layer and allow the seed to germinate. The tree grows, plays host to a moth that fertilizes the Amela tree-upon which the island's economy depends. Will the London plutocrats get their way? Will Zenkali perish? Will Peter entice Audrey into his sleeping...