Word: bargemen
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...Christo, 50, has dreamed especially of shrouding the bridge that crosses the western tip of the Ile de la Cité near the Left Bank's Latin Quarter in Paris. The $2.3 million project, which Christo pays for by selling his plans and sketches, will involve some 450 workers, including bargemen, rock climbers and crane operators, who will begin wrapping the Pont Neuf next month. "People will be obliged to walk on it," observes the Bulgarian-born artist. "I find it extremely poetic." --By Guy D. Garcia
...near the lockmaster's office. The rawboned Driver town is hardly humming (KEOKUK, HOME OF LORI FROELING, MISS IOWA 1979, brags its welcome sign), but the residents are friendly, and alcohol, strictly forbidden on the boats, is amply available. John and Donna Coffield invited several of the stranded bargemen into their home for Christmas and New Year's. "The last time they came, they drank 26 pitchers of beer," recalls John, "and they claimed they weren't thirsty...
...Bronze Age artifacts along the Esk River on the Scottish border. Virtually every European country offers at least two or three music festivals, and almost everywhere, every week, there are rumbustious folk festivals, with such attractions as jousting knights, wrestling Tyroleans, strawberry-eating contests, battling bargemen and tootling bands. A country-by-country summary of seasonal highlights...
...desperate, ineffectual rage that sometimes leads people to attempt suicide. In this clear and measured biography, Critic Claire Tomalin, the new literary editor of the New Statesman, wisely allows the facts to smolder on their own. In October 1795 Mary Wollstonecraft jumped off Putney Bridge into the Thames; the bargemen who pulled her out saved her for a more humiliating fate...
...foreman reporting to his jovial boss; a bus queue enlivened by a quarrel; an earnest job applicant getting the works. Thus summarized the sketches sound unexciting, but they completely engaged the viewers' attention, and were beautifully interspersed with filmed shots of London and Londoners-old ladies gossiping, Thames bargemen clowning when the camera was on them, swinging birds in a discotheque...