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...photographs of freaks, dwarfs, giants and even "ordinary" people in unflattering poses. Contained in those pictures is a statement about how grotesque all of life is, not just the subjects photographed. But with the publication of Patricia Bosworth's biography the question of why, what compelled Arbus to hunt for life it the world of freaks's for the first time explored. Unfortunately, readers fascinated with this tortured figure will have to wait until another study for a satisfactory answer...
...Moore's and Edwards's best known collaboration, 10, Moore was a musician undergoing a romantic mid-life crisis. On the hunt for the perfect woman, he learns from Bo Derek that it ain't what ya got, it's what ya do with it. Rob the journalist is merely an extension of Moore's part in 10, less smutty and more family-minded. In face after the lesson learned in 10, children are the logical next step for middle-aged male monomania...
...Attorney General William French Smith called it "the largest and most successful fugitive man hunt in U.S. history." The description seemed no exaggeration: over the past two months, more than 3,000 career criminals in eight East Coast states have been arrested for offenses ranging from murder to narcotics to weapons violations. The top-secret operation, called FIST 7, followed six similar dragnets conducted by the Justice Department's Federal Investigative Strike Teams program launched...
...killing of this whale was supposed to have ended after this year's spring hunt by order of the 40-member International Whaling Commission (IWC). But Japan's commercial fleet is still slaughtering sperm whales. And the U.S. Government, to the anguish of environmental groups, is allowing Japan to continue...
...problem goes back to 1981, when Japan joined Norway and the Soviet Union, the only other nations that hunt significant numbers of whales, in filing an objection to the killing ban. For three years the Japanese whaling industry, which employs more than 50,000 people, has been pleading with Tokyo not to put it out of business. At the same time, the government was being pressed by Washington to abide by the ban. Despite this pressure, the Japanese announced that they would catch 400 sperm whales in the 1984-85 season, and in early November a four-ship whaling fleet...