Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worse & Worse. The problem lies in the fact that a beach is a moving thing, alternately yielding and receiving sand from the action of tides and waves...
...Martha's Vineyard, he is in for a rude surprise. His Chilmark house, which used to be a safe 200 ft. from the cliffs overlooking the sea, is now only 80 ft. away, and the broad stone steps that were once in his backyard are now on the beach below. On the New Jersey shore, the sea has slowly devoured 50 square blocks of the town of Cape May Point, and St. Peter's by the Sea Episcopal Church, a frame structure which has already been moved three times, now has the sea only 50 ft. from...
Along the so-called "high energy" beaches, where the water is turbulent and the currents swift, the offshore sand level can rise and fall as much as 4 ft. in half a day. Most beaches are subject to extremely heavy erosion during winter storms, then are rebuilt by sand-bearing currents during the summer. But, says Joseph Caldwell, head of the Beach Erosion Board of the Army Corps of Engineers, "the beaches generally wash out more each winter than they get built back each summer...
...things in his pictures. He recreates mood and motion in the dark gray tones and blur of a photograph of a truck on the highway. His camera stops things that we probably wouldn't see: two boys, one sunning his face with a reflecter, and a hotel on the beach. And he uses the camera to stop simple, clearly defined portraits so we can study them--a tree in a field, a man reading the paper on his bed. Some of his work is so abstract, however, that he has to draw a diagram to explain the lines of direction...
...nicely-made and often-funny parody ofA Man And A woman. With Francis Lai's strings blaring on the soundtrack, the hero's Volvo roars down the highway, the camera treating it as if it were Ferrari's greatest master-piece; the lovers on a tiny piece of grimy beach are flanked by stagehands running around with large strips of colored paper; the bossa nova singing exhusband becomes a pudgy Hawaiian who falls down a flight of stairs to his death. All this is fine but somewhere from the background comes a gnawing feeling that the conception owes too much...