Word: oceaneering
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...have settled in a small wooden box in La Jolla, Calif. Audrey Geisel - who is sometimes referred to simply as "the widow" - has placed them there, neatly and lovingly, on a heavy wooden hutch in the sunny foyer of the home they shared high on a hill by the ocean. They were married in 1968, long after the rest of the world had fallen in love with him, and still she keeps him close, just steps from the study where a hat-wearing cat and a Christmas-stealing Grinch and a Who-hearing Horton once scampered across the drawing board...
...incident that led to the DUI arrest was hardly dramatic. Bush, then 30, was driving down Kennebunkport's Ocean Avenue after midnight on the way to his family's summer compound. He had been drinking beers that night with his sister Dorothy, Australian tennis star John Newcombe and Newcombe's wife. Officer Bridges, just getting off duty, saw Bush's car slipping briefly onto the shoulder before getting back on the road. Bridges stopped the car and asked Bush to take a balloon test. The result: an alcohol level over Maine's 0.10 legal limit. Bush readily admitted...
...flesh pulls and pushes apart like an epidermal big bang. Another print plays on the truism that "no man is an island," shoving all the flesh into the center of the sheet and leaving the mouth open in pain, while the sky, which this time reads more as ocean, serenely surrounds the chaos. With their distortions, these prints speak about issues of identity, lack of personal agency and intense self-examination, and their conclusions don't look cheerful...
...WAVE OF DOOM? Earlier this month, a scientist at University College, London, raised concerns that part of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on one of the Canary Islands could fall into the ocean, creating a giant wave that would annihilate large swaths of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. "If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the news," said Dr. Simon...
...that top actors are even busier than usual. Tom Cruise will motor directly from Cameron Crowe's "Vanilla Sky" to Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report." John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Julia Roberts - all are piggybacking big projects. Director Steven Soderbergh has fiddled with the shooting schedule for his remake of "Ocean's Eleven" to accommodate Roberts after she finishes shooting "America's Sweethearts." "I was happy to do make the adjustment," says Soderbergh. "She's doing me an enormous favor...