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...Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, some Indian sages had forecast the coming of white-skinned aliens. On his deathbed, a chief of New England's Wampanoag tribe said that strange white people would come to crowd out the Indians. As a sign, a great white whale would rise out of the witch pond. The night he died, the whale rose, just as he had predicted. Similar prophecies about predatory whites can be found in the lore of Virginia's Powhatans and the Ojibwa of Minnesota...
Usually one of hip-hop's most creative lyricists, you'd think Q-Tip could come up with a better line for the chorus of "Sucka Nigga" than "My style is kind of fat, reminiscent of a whale...
...deft that even its target has quoted it with pleasure, Walter Kerr once observed that Neil Simon did not have an idea for a new play that season but wrote it anyway. Jonathan Tolins, a 26-year-old Harvard graduate with Simonesque style and polemic aspirations, had a whale of an idea for The Twilight of the Golds. He just didn't write a play to fulfill...
...mark up. So if I was going to get some dirt about tattooing, I would need to get one myself. I couldn't, after all, pretend that my dignity prohibited me from going under the needle. I'm already marked--thrice, as luck would have it: a pathetic whale on my right ankle, a David Smith sculpture (Voltri-Bolton I) on my left ankle, and two androgynous tangoers on my left bicep...
Mideast pact alters its global image: whale killer to peacemaker...