Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vingo, a Colombo family loan shark with a fearsome reputation for violence...
...filled his baggage with every imaginable sort of junk. Dürer once impetuously swapped a whole portfolio of engravings and woodcuts for "five snail shells, four silver and five copper medals, two dried fishes, a white coral, four reed arrows and a red coral," as well as a large shark's fin that one of his friends, a vicar, had to lug all the way home to Nuremberg. Even the disease that ruined his health, malaria, was a souvenir: a mosquito bit him when he ventured into the salt marshes of Zeeland to draw yet another marvel?a dead whale...
...tell the truth. Doc has a few little problems of his own. The big galoot can literally knock out a 12-ft. shark, but he is scared of girls-in one book he turns to a Mayan maid who is made lor him and stoutly "vouchsafes" the following: "Monja, you've been a brick." But not all of Doc's quirks are endearing. Billed as a paragon of fair play, he nevertheless tends to characterize non-Nordic types as "a low specimen of the Central American half-breed" or as "ratty, dark-skinned" people. In his books black...
...years ago," she says, "and the men decided they didn't want us." Now she says that the L.P.G.A. doesn't need to romance the men golfers -the pros, that is. A tall, angular Texan who averages 235 yds. off the tee and putts like a pool shark, Kathy contends that "the amateur male golfer can learn by watching the girls swing because his game compares with ours...
Thus Peter Matthiessen in his book Blue Meridian, The Search for the Great White Shark. Even Matthiessen's narrative power pales before the documentary film based on his chronicle of the hunt. In the book, he follows the obsessive quest of Peter Gimbel, department-store-heir-turned-adventurer, in the last unexplored regions of the earth. The chronicler is a fine natural historian, but at times his subject makes any words inadequate. In Blue Water, White Death, it is the camera that achieves what prose approximates. In the waters of Ceylon, Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel...