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...November 20, 1820, the Nantucket whaling ship Essex was attacked by a sperm whale, and sank in mid-Pacific. The incident provided Herman Melville the ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic...
...ocean liner QE 2 glides past the World Trade Center: elegant horizontal meeting towering verticals. The late afternoon sun lends pale, reflected fire, while the rest of the sky fills up with lowering clouds. How fortunate that Photographer George Forss, 40, happened to be there with his camera when all this happened. More fortunate still, Forss sells 11-in. by 14-in. copies of this photograph, exquisitely printed and carefully matted, for only...
Evil abounds in the world evoked by Ginzburg. The Kolyma region where she was ultimately imprisoned was the largest and most terrible of the Stalin-era concentration-camp complexes, stretching a thousand miles from the Arctic Ocean to the Sea of Okhotsk. Alexander Solzhenitsyn has called Kolyma "the pole of cold and cruelty." It was a place of massacre, where 3 million died, the men digging for gold under the permafrost, the women felling trees at temperatures of -56° F. Young men dispatched to the mines quickly succumbed to tuberculosis. Ginzburg, who acted for a time as a medical...
...straw-hatted, natty, top-lit look, which is that of a matinee idol portraying a gangster. Perhaps the best pure photography in the show is a picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. Ordinarily depicted as a dour, moody presence, Stevenson gave a photo to a fellow passenger on an ocean liner that meets Weston's dictum: it lays open a vital and engaging face. A forefinger of his clasped hands points outward like a conductor's baton, and intelligence, so rarely caught on film, dances in warm eyes...
...Ursa and Non (an unrecognizable Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas and Jack O'Halloran), whom experts in yesterday's trivia will recall as the trio of traitors the good folks of Krypton compressed to the proportions of a flat rock and sent skimming over the ocean of space at the beginning of the first film. Accidentally released from bondage, they make their way to earth with intent to take over the territory. Since each has powers equal to those of Superman, their ambition does not seem unreasonable-particularly since, under Kryptonic law, Superman has been forced to abandon...