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As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, "a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand fathoms down, decrease its volume to the size of a bathtub!"
Here was James Woods, talking a million miles a minute to Anthony Minghella, the director of The English Patient , and appearing for all the world like he was playing the manic Richard Boyle in Salvador . There was Gabriel Byrne, nursing a Heineken, every inch the handsome villain of The Usual Suspects . And here was Jeff Goldblum, angular and geeky, looking like he had just stepped out of that helicopter in Jurassic Park . He was just back from Hawaii, where he had been filming The Lost World , the sequel to that monster smash.
Middle sister Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is the author of arty, titillating short stories and a magnet for studs and weight lifters; she resides in a dim high-rise down the corridor from two unrelated fatties, Kristina (Camryn Manheim) and Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman).
Book -- Riven Rock , by T. Coraghessan Boyle;