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After the burly ho-hummery of summer blockbusters, the autumn arts season is supposed to offer innovation, cerebration, the thrill of threat. Not so much this year. From heroes (James Bond) to villains (the murderous Dr. Crippen), everything new is old again. The first single from the fall CD by Beyoncé says it all: Deja Vu. Seen this, heard that. And, if it's any good, happy to feel it again...
...easy compared to retrieving the carcass. If the crocodile was shot in water, he says, "We'd draw straws to see who would have to dive in and get it. You'd go by touch and hope it was killed." But the risks were all part of the thrill. Nowadays, he says mournfully, "You can't do anything without a license. You can't even smoke in the pub anymore...
...Regrets? None. "I love the sea. I love what I do." The daily thrill is hauling up pots to see how much catch is in them. On a good day, Steele and Moore bring in 250 to 300 kg of cray. It took them 90 days at sea last season to catch their quota...
...involve a sock in the mouth, leading Mike to one of two responses: kiss or kill. And every smooch is a heavyweight event. ("I kissed her so hard I hurt my mouth this time.") Sex is violent, and violence sexy. They are the two things that give him a thrill. And once in a while he can combine the two. "I don't hit women," he genially assures pearly Shirley Eaton In The Girl Hunters. "I always kick...
...This captivating exhibition gives a sense of what drove Maar to that obsessive hoarding of memories; of the giddy, dangerous thrill of orbiting, touching?occasionally guiding?artistic genius in all its searing intensity. It was Maar's glorious tragedy, and our good fortune, that she flew so close to the flame...