Word: polynesian
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...treasure trove of subjects for scholarly research. Beginning Aug. 3, two dozen academics will present papers at the latest international conference on the King, at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Vernon Chadwick, the conference director, who has made connections between Elvis' Hawaiian movies and Herman Melville's Polynesian novels, declares, "Within Elvis there is a multiplicity of topics of study." Among the conference's papers...
...recommended daily allowance for men and twice that for women. With the price of beef falling, Americans last year ate nearly 64 lbs. per person -- the highest consumption level in five years -- and that number is expected to increase again this year. No wonder America has become the fat Polynesian prince of the world, the 20th century's answer to Henry the Eighth...
...chosen from 678 applicants after rigorous tryouts. Among them: eight Olympic athletes, two women who sailed through hurricane-force winds and icebergs in the Whitbread, a world-class weightlifter who coaches the University of Washington Huskies football team, a native Hawaiian who sailed a 60-ft. canoe using Polynesian wayfinding, an aerospace engineer, and three mothers of small children. As impressive and eclectic as the women are, however, only two are experienced in big-boat match racing. By contrast, virtually all the members of the men's teams have that critical background. "We're the underdogs," says helmsman Dawn Riley...
...result is Theroux's ninth and possibly best travel book, an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific islands, from New Guinea to Easter Island to Hawaii. His goal was to retrace, in part, the bold voyages of early Polynesian seafarers who gave this vast area a common culture, now corrupt and moribund. Theroux took the big hops by plane or ship. But his preferred mode of travel was a collapsible, 16-ft.-long French-made kayak, which he paddled -- carefully -- through dangerous waters infested by crocodiles, sharks and stinging Portuguese...
SIEGFRIED AND ROY AT THE MIRAGE IN LAS VEGAS. If the flame-spewing volcano, the fish-filled tanks and the Polynesian-style gaming tables fail to bedazzle you, take in the hottest show on the Strip. Illusion prevails as a five-ton elephant disappears, Royal White tigers strut their stuff and glitzy dancing girls in armor play with a fire-breathing dragon...