Word: beach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this spot? "Because he'll have to slow down to turn the corner." One sign stood out even more than the big WITAM, JAN PAWEL II placard above LaSalle's bar. VIVA EL PAPA it read. And in small letters below LOS CUBANOS. "I am from Miami Beach," the old woman said who held it. "I am Cuban." She was Noemi Sarmenteros, 75 years old, and she lived with her son in Florida. But she had made the trip to see the Pope with Boston friends...
Next week there will be considerable excitement at Gitmo, when 1,800 Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., hit the beach by helicopter and boat. For four weeks they will live in barracks and tents, simulating siege conditions. When the maneuvers end, the most visible light will again be the one that burns over the tennis court, and Gitmo will return to its tropical ways...
...tiny, windowless office on West Palm Beach's Datura Street, Erica Bennett last week made one phone call after another to musical booking agents. Finally, she lined up the Gwen McCray group for a free performance at Gains Park next Saturday afternoon for 1,000 young people. But this will be disco with a difference: before going to the dance, each guest will be expected to stop by Forest Hill High School and cast a vote of confidence for Jimmy Carter...
There are other delicious bits and pieces scattered throughout "10"-Dudley Moore trying to make a cool entrance on a hot beach, and having to throw towels ahead of him to protect his feet from the burning sand; a woman who insists on making love precisely to the rhythm of Ravel's Bolero; a lengthy mix-up involving dentistry, painkillers, the telephone, a telescope, some naked ladies, a swimming pool, a steep hillside and the police. It is really quite indescribable -but gorgeously orchestrated...
...middle of the journey the Big was "embedded in a life I had some curious way outgrown. I an artifact, genus boat bum, a pale-eyed, shambling, gangling, knuckly man, without enough unscarred hide left to make a decent lamp shade. Watchful appraiser of the sandy-rumped beach ladies. Creaking knight errant, yawning at the thought of the next dragon." John MacDonald acknowledges that his hero "could not have gone on in that vein without boring me. I had to shake him up." In Green, Travis gets rocked, socked and knocked from boots to brains...