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...tropics you'd stick around until the sharks came and got you." Paul Rodgers, 37, of London, whose 55-ft. Spirit of Pentax is the narrowest boat in the race, has some daunting memories: he was leading the 1980 OSTAR when his boat was rammed by a whale and forced to withdraw...
...astonishing because it is unexpected and because it satisfies the law and our moral sense. But story is the least of Bob le Flambeur's pleasures. This film is "about" a casino heist the way the other Melville's great novel is "about" a big bad whale: The film's true subject is how a man of a certain integrity (however sleazy his profession) lives in a world that does not set much store by that quality. It is about how such a man orders a meal, talks to a policeman or enters his apartment alone, with...
...bookshelf holding weighty volumes of everything from Erté's costume designs to Donald Duck's Uncle Scrooge ("Wonderful! My favorite! Uncle Scrooge is my partner! He's Sergio Galeotti!") and a bathroom with a tub of Carrara marble big enough for Shamu the Killer Whale. The tub, Armani's one concession to abject luxury, also turns out, perhaps significantly, to be impractical. "It is so big," he admits, "that the water gets cold before it fills...
Oddly enough, neither Harvard not Yale has beaten the other in New Haven since 1979, and four of the last five games have been ties. Last year at Ingalls Rink (nicknamed the Yale Whale, of American Buildings and Their Architects," Jordy, p. 200) Harvard blew a 4-2 lead fell behind, 5-4, and rallied to tie on a Mark Fusco slapshot late in the game. The year before, the teams played a rollicking 6-6 contest at the New Haven Coliseum which featured hat tricks by Harvard's Greg Olson and Yale's Paul Castraberti...
...With everything being eyeballed by responsible people," Perrot said, "we're rediscovering things in collections that had previously been overlooked." At the National Natural History Museum, researchers found nine whale skeletons that somehow were misplaced in the 1950s and a never-opened crate containing the bones of big game shot in Africa by Teddy Roosevelt. Although many items seem ridiculous or redundant, Perrot says that the Smithsonian wants them both for scientific research and as "testimony of the past being kept for the future...