Word: shipwrecks
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...both social exculsivity and Princetonian pretension with his witty new novel, The Final Club. Wolff charts the voyage of Nathaniel Clay--a Seattle boy who is half-Jew, half WASP--from the deceptively placid waters of the 1950s, through the stormy seas of the 1960s, and finally to a shipwreck at the end of the 1970s...
Multimax, May 3-5 at the Loeb Ex. Written and directed by undergraduate Peter Hirsch, the work chronicles an entertainment company's fantastic and macabre shipwreck...
What movie extravaganza has a cast of 2,000, including Warren Beatty, Bill Cosby, Bette Midler, Robin Williams, Walter Cronkite, Chevy Chase, Martin Short, David Letterman, Mel Gibson, Pee-wee Herman and George Lucas? Features an earthquake, a shipwreck, a giant bee, several gunfights and a zillion other acts of harmless mayhem? Cost about $500 million to produce -- as much as ten whole Ishtars? And, with gobs of charm, sly wit and relentless good cheer, brings off the film magician's trick of making make-believe believable...
...shipwreck is one result of the largely unregulated growth of Antarctic enterprise. Says Peter Wilkniss, head of the National Science Foundation's polar programs: "We are witnessing the dawn of the commercial age in Antarctica." Thousands of tourists are flocking to the once inaccessible continent. Throughout the 1984-85 season, only 400 people visited Antarctica, but in the week before the Bahia Paraiso hit the reef, more than 500 visitors passed through Palmer Station alone. And Antarctic tourists are doing more than sailing to research centers for short visits and lecture tours. In 1988, 35 adventurers paid $35,000 each...
...gold chain fetched $319,000. A two-handled gold cup went for $275,000. The only treasure not up for auction at what Christie's New York called the most spectacular shipwreck sale in history was the $1 million worth of salvaged gold draped around Mel Fisher's well-tanned neck. He is the 65-year- old treasure hunter whose 20-year search for sunken bullion finally paid off three years ago, when he discovered the main cargo of the Nuestra Seora de Atocha, a booty-laden Spanish galleon that foundered in stormy seas off Florida's Key West...