Word: sharking
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...Then there is a banquet at night. While Americans watching on television get the idea that it is some kind of folk festival, it is not quite so hearty. The huge hall engulfs the guests, much like China itself. Nixon is a dim figure with Chou, nibbling at his shark's fin dish and supping his almond junket. Pat's red dress is a drop of warm blood in the gray...
...which gradually convince the crew--and slowly convert the officers to a similar view--that he is really quite mad. Arnheiter spends $950 of the crew's recreation fund to buy a speedboat which, he says, will help to engage Vietcong gunboats by serving as a decoy. He has shark's teeth painted on the bow of the speedboat to give it fighting spirit. He institutes a code of moral behavior, cleanliness and shore-like routine that includes a required Protestant religious service each Sunday on the aft deck. In addition, he places himself above the crew; on one occasion...
...area. Set adrift, the men try to raise the Vance on the radio; but Arnheiter has sailed out of range. Suddenly they spot a plane, an American plane. It drops down for a look at the junk and finds also a 16-foot speedboat with shark's teeth painted on the bow. The pilot turns and starts in for a strafing run, averted only by the frantic waving of the three by five foot American flag Arnheiter had placed aboard the speedboat to help ensnare communists. "Please God," prays one of the crewmen aloud, "please don't let them open...
...makeup, a paradoxical austerity which he traces directly to his father." It is no accident that so many of Bacon's most compelling images are at root father-figures: the shrieking Pope, the dictator mouthing before the mikes, the worsted-sheathed executive with the expression of a wax shark...
...There are only two ways to beat the loan shark. You can die or you can run away. If you come back in ten years, you'll find that you still owe the principal and the interest that's been piling up. The books never close...