Word: leviathan
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...Santa Cruz Cathedral's annex. Taking a breather from a scene in which 007 meets a Cuban MI6 operative named Raoul (Emilio Echevarria), he gazes out over the city and reflects on a franchise that has made him into a global symbol. Bond, he says, "is a leviathan--and it's even more amazing after doing all these films...
Notable in the collection are the first editions of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and Blackstone's Commentaries...
...Health officials have myriad theories, but few real answers. Some blame the leviathan that is America's tobacco industry, whose advertising and marketing resources make any public health efforts pale in comparison. Others blame women's biological susceptibility to nicotine's addictive qualities, which may make it more difficult for a woman to quit smoking than a man. Still others point to a culture obsessed with thinness, even at the expense of health; women who try to quit smoking often gain weight as a result of both increased eating and a diminished metabolism...
...similar vacation and raved about it. Up to then, my nautical experience consisted of rowing a 12-ft. boat in New York City's Central Park. Awaiting us in Arizona, though, was not a modest little craft. Nope, I'd be piloting a 60-ft., 15-ton double-decker leviathan, dubbed the Admiral by the rental company because it was the largest model in its fleet. What had I been thinking? Our three kids were eager; my wife, game. But I was certain we'd end up as another tragic summer-boating statistic. Worse, a houseboating statistic...
Seeing his ship laid over helplessly on its side, the captain cried out, "My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?" The first mate replied, "We have been stove by a whale." Moby Dick? No, this leviathan was part of the real-life drama that inspired the Melville story. Halfway around the world from its home port of Nantucket, Mass., while chasing whales in the South Seas, the 238-ton whaler Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The episode, in November 1820, was the Titanic disaster of its day, much discussed because of what ensued...