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...know whether I saw the blood first or the shark." The monstrous fish swam toward Rehm, spat out Conger and then vanished. Recalls Rehm: "Omar said, 'Help me.' " It was too late: by the time Rehm had floated him to shore on a raft, Conger was dead...
...sentimental plea for humanistic faculty-student relationships, sometimes a romantic comedy and sometimes The Blackboard Jungle revisited. Mostly, however, it is a mess. Screenwriter W.R. McKinney wrenches his plot endlessly, attempting to make plausible the weird shifts in tone. The leads (Nick Nolte and JoBeth Williams) and a raft of good supporting players are simply set adrift, looking for a logical line to which their bedraggled characters might cling. There are no survivors...
Reagan would certainly try to choose conservatives, just as Mondale would surely attempt to pick liberals. With both Brennan and Marshall nearing retirement, Mondale would need a whole raft of appointments to revive the liberal activism of the Warren era. More likely, he would only be able to prop up the court's aging left wing. The court as a whole would continue to drift, advancing here, trimming back there...
...sight. Just after the young are hatched, loons move operations from the nest to a brooding area. With the family removed, Fair and Minor crept slowly into the cove to inspect the floating nest, a nest the preservation committee had set out in the spring. It is more raft than nest, actually about 6 ft. square, framed with cedar logs, filled with sod and sedge. Loons nest naturally on land, where raccoons feast on loon eggs. Preservation committee = artificial floating nests = more loons...
...catapulted into the dark, heaving sea. "As she went under I levered myself onto the rail and was swept clear as she went under me," Sefton remembers. "As I stood on the poop rail I thought, 'Jump!' I went under water for a few seconds. A life raft was 30 ft. away. I thought, 'Oh God, swim!' " The orange rafts were designed to eject and inflate automatically in an emergency, and they did. Clifton McMillan, 16, of Fairfield, Conn., who had just finished his watch when the squall hit, managed to jump into a raft...