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Where can these warring sexes find equality and transcendence? Only on the stage, or at the circus, or in the movies -- in the gaudy popular arts from which Fellini's gaudy, sophisticated art emerged. A girl might dance with her cartoon hero made flesh; stokers on a great ship might feel a little better hearing the friendly competition of high notes from opera stars many decks above them. And for Guido in 8 1/2, it is the knowledge that on celluloid he can do anything: reunite lovers, reconcile families, turn dream into drama and * lead all life's players...
Some readers have zero tolerance for the genre of seagoing adventures. To such landlubbers, nautical language all sounds distressingly like shiver-me- mizzenmast or belay-the-taffrail or somesuch, and they quickly jump ship in search of books written in more accessible prose. Too bad for them, because they have therefore missed the high-sailing novels of Patrick O'Brian...
...16th installment of what devotees call the Aubrey/Maturin novels. All are set in the early 19th century, during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, and all feature the same two heroes: Jack Aubrey, a blunt, brave captain in the British Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, a ship's surgeon, amateur naturalist and sometimes spy for His Majesty's government...
...Garcia Marquez's Amercian peregrinos, Europe is a perilous place, a land of unknown dangers where there are no signposts to guide the traveler. In "Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen," Garcia Marquez writes of Prudencia Linares, and old woman who is making a pilgrimage to see the Pope. As her ship arrives in Naples, the reader is treated to the woman's thoughts: "Every voyage must be like this, she thought, suffering for the first time in her life the sharp pain of being a foreigner, while she leaned over the railing and contemplated the vestiges of so many extinct worlds...
...building fits the scientists like an enzymefits its substrate. For example, an innovativeframe support, called a gantry, stretches over thecourtyard from Anderson's second-floor lab. Whenhis group builds a particularly hefty apparatusand needs to ship it out, they can place it in alarge box, open the wide doors, and lower it usingthe gantry onto a truckbed below. From there, thetruck drives it to the airport for its tripsouth--to Antarctica. A well-placed gantry is agodsend...