Word: walrus
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...Baltic port of Gdansk. For the second time in less than five months, militant young workers hoisted scarlet-and-white SOLIDARNOSC banners across the main entrance to the shipyard, while outside a cordon of militia swiftly sealed off the area. From inside the gates, a familiar face with walrus mustache addressed a crowd of cheering workers. "The most important demand is the revival of Solidarity," said Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lech Walesa. "It is needed in these difficult times to fight for reforms, design them and introduce them...
MARRIED. David Crosby, 45, walrus-mustached member of the Crosby, Stills and Nash rock trio, and Jan Dance, 35; both for the first time; in Los Angeles. Reaffirming their wedding vows at the ceremony were Bandmate Graham Nash, 45, and his wife of ten years, Susan...
...community eagerly shuffled off through the metal detectors to Reykjavik. If anything went down, the press would be there to get photos. As the trample of journalistic feet covered the diminutive island nation--threatening to sink it to the seabed--editors around America slept contentedly. They knew that every walrus within a 50 mile radius could be on the front page within 24 hours...
...over at Cypress Gardens, where the host of the Little Critter Show became exasperated when one of his fowl performers, Quack Nicklaus, blew a stunt. Keened the trainer: "There's only so much you can teach a duck.") At Sea World the dolphins do backflips in sync; a walrus sprays his audience on cue; seals eat fish dangled by children; there are even a few humans doing water-ski daredeviltry to pre-Beatles rock in the Beach Blanket Ski Party show. As at Disney World, Sea World works hard to elicit one of two reactions from its visitors...
...provide a weird history and geography: "A Swedish explorer had all but completed a written description in his notebook of a craggy headland with two unusually symmetrical valley glaciers, the whole of it a part of a large island, when he discovered what he was looking at was a walrus." In the author's luminous notes, the Eskimos, the animals and the landscape are components in a vast, unfinished epic. "The continuous work of the imagination," Lopez concludes, is "to bring what is actual together with what is dreamed." This merger is a crystalline triumph...