Word: barracudas
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...this could perhaps be dismissed as a climatological quirk, if it were not accompanied by other baffling events. On Christmas Island in the mid-Pacific, about 17 million sea birds have fled their ancient nesting grounds. Barracuda are unexpectedly appearing in the waters off Monterey, Calif. Marlin, red crabs, sea horses and other creatures usually found in warm Mexican waters are showing up as far north as San Francisco. High in the sky, westerly winds have been blowing so furiously toward the California coast that jets have cut their flying time from Hawaii by as much as an hour...
Blessing's creative gem is the new owner, Mr. Thompson (Michael Kevin), who flies his own Learjet. Thompson is a cross between the Yankees' George Steinbrenner arid a computerized barracuda. He tells the warriors" and players he that "you wants "a can't be franchise perfect of without a perfect attitude." All the actors at Louisville are very nearly perfect, and this year they had to be. - - By T.E. Kalem
Cause and Effect--And yet, Rebel Without A Cause sent a shockwave through the 1950s--to the point where the movie was banned in Japan. To the point where red barracuda jackets were becoming an epidemic. To the point where a cult of Dean emerged complete with teenagers who tried to contact his spirit and were convinced that somehow he'd come back. It was one of those weird flashes of fusion, where some source, regardless of its quality, taps into some undercurrent that everyone else has ignored. Witness Kerouac. Witness Kesey. Witness Presley...
...soft, smooth, surprisingly characterless face expresses J.R.'s childishness; but those huge blue eyes testify to ages of suffering given and received. He is the man we love to hate. J.R. and Hagman deserve the country's gratitude for lighting up Friday nights with that barracuda smile...
...have been a quiet little coup, executed with characteristic French panache from behind the scenes. The successor had been picked, paratroops were at the ready, and when the despised dictator left the country, voilà! "Operation Barracuda" would go into effect. So well, in fact, did the plot come off that when tyrannical Emperor Bokassa I was overthrown in the Central African Empire two weeks ago, it was hailed as a triumph of sanity over murderous despotism. By last week, however, the French connection in the affair was proving an embarrassment, and the all too Francophile new regime of President...