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...best, however, not to look down. The jade-green water that laps the shores is slimy to the touch, glinting with an oily iridescence and dotted with tourist flotsam and jetsam of which carrier bags and lumps of polystyrene are among the least noxious. The fisherfolk who invite visitors aboard their sampan settlements with offers of rice wine or bamboo bongs also sell coral and shells stolen from the few reefs that remain. And the grenades and dynamite sticks that you see stored in the cabins below give a blunt indication of the level of respect the fishermen...
...neighbor 10 A deg. held by some lawyers 12 Bradley/Gore pol. affiliation 16 She supported 26-Down's decision on 1-Down 20 Tiebreakers, briefly 23 Charged atom 24 Newspaper that broke the Paxson story 26 Org. that ruled that 1-Down should be returned to Cuba 27 Jetsam of 1773 28 Comedian Bill, to his friends 30 Cokie's on-air rival 31 Play a role 32 P, on a fraternity sweater 33 Syrians want to wade in its waters 35 Business-card abbr. 38 Guinness World Records suffix 40 Banned apple spray 43 ___ Arens, a vocal opponent...
...interior of a stuffy old natural history museum. A dinosaur skeleton occupies a central position throughout the movie, lending an eerie atmosphere of impending doom to the events Gavras films through its bare ribs. Especially compelling are the images of television screens broadcasting garishly amid the flotsam and jetsam of American history, which consist primarily of extinct or endangered animals and routed indigenous peoples...
...middle who do okay, who fluorish and grow. Sooner or later, Paul Siemens will go through an experience at Harvard in which he will not be No. 1 and someone else will be. If he can't handle that concept, he'll be crushed, part of the flotsam and jetsam floating aimlessly around campus snarling at all they meet...
Five years ago, when pro football players walked out for 57 days in a bid for a larger percentage of television spoils, the atmosphere was quite different. No substitutes walked in. Last week the flotsam and jetsam from past N.F.L. camps, the U.S.F.L. and summer Arena Football were bused past jeering and egg-throwing picketers and delivered into the hesitant custody of shell-shocked coaches. At first inspection, Ray Perkins of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers judged, "A few are in poor shape; a couple are in no shape at all." The Washington Redskins' Joe Gibbs said...