Word: shipwreck
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There’s enough of both in “Lady in the Water,” the first film from the adamantly-PG-13 director M. Night Shyamalan since the recent public shipwreck of his relationship with Disney and his jump to the Warner Bros. vessel...
...ability to find small moments of imperishability in a world that does not encourage it. Vertigo makes us enjoy the peaceful pleasures of life. By that, Kundera means the life-saving sight of someone you deeply care about sleeping serenely by your side or holding her hand amidst the shipwreck of civilization. Vertigo is about finding meaning in experience, and if having not found it, to make...
...Harvard’s Indian College, where all Native American students lived—located on the spot in the Yard where Matthews Hall now stands—he might have graduated first in the University’s Class of 1665 if he had not died in a shipwreck just before his commencement...
...Atlantic Ocean, 40 miles west of Key West, came upon what Bleth McHaley, vice president of Fisher's Treasure Salvors Inc., has since described as "a reef of silver bars with lobsters living in it." Many are now calling the find the largest ever recovered from a shipwreck. "They were jumping up and down and waving their hands at us in the water," says Kane Fisher, Mel's 26-year-old son, referring to the pair of divers who made the initial discovery. "At first we thought something was wrong. Then they started shouting, 'We found it! We found...
...first two days, 40 divers brought up more than 200 silver ingots, weighing 7 tons. Each bar was 15 in. long and tipped the scales at about 70 lbs. Divers also found the archetypal treasures of a shipwreck: wooden chests spilling over with coins. According to McHaley, the Atocha's inventory includes more than 1,000 silver bars, which were bound for Spain from Cuba and other New World colonies in 1622, when the ship sank in a hurricane's high winds and raging seas. Estimates of the worth of the booty range as high as $400 million. Some local...