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...destroyers had run in almost to the beach and were blowing every pillbox out of the ground with their five-inch guns," wrote Ernest Hemingway, who watched from one of the landing craft. "I saw a piece of German about three feet long with an arm on it sail high up into the air in the fountaining of one shellburst. It reminded me of a scene in Petrouchka...
Taking advantage of what senior Captain Rosemary Pugh calls "a good opportunity to get some more rowing in," the Radcliffe varsity heavyweight eight will set sail for Seattle. Wash, and national competition next Tuesday...
ANTHONY HOPKINS, however, does succeed in making Captain Bligh into a complex figure, whose binding ambition to sail around the world and fierce love of order somehow is not strong enough to overpower his deep-seated insecurity and desire to be accepted by his men. By showing, with amazing intensity. Blight's torturous, sleepless nights while in Tahiti, Hopkins reveals his character's inner turmoil. Bligh realizes that by allowing his men to frolic with the native women he is losing his control on them, yet if he forces them to stay on board the ship, their anger will take...
...Bligh is seen losing control of self and ship when his men fail to respond to considerate treatment. The situation worsens when he prudishly disapproves of their licentiousness during their months ashore on the sybaritic island, grows desperate as he attempts to reassert harsh discipline once the ship sets sail again...
However, the Dunster boat maintained a more peaceful stance (symbolized by their orange and purple tie-dyed sail) by refusing to throw objects at Currier and instead squirting them with fish emulsion...