Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some movies, made especially for the undemanding, easy-living days of summer, contrive to linger on after the season has passed. Finding them in a local theater is like shaking forgotten grains of beach sand out of a shoe. A few survivors still on view...
...obstreperous girl friend (nicely played by Lazaro Perez and Tricia O'Neil) who yell and argue from the Hudson River to the Pacific. The course is the superhighway system of America. The object is to get from Manhattan to the dock of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif., preferably without being busted by a perennially thwarted cop named Roscoe (Normann Burton). The best time for the race is a shade over 34 hours. There are no rules...
...early 20s from a wealthy family in Istanbul, was on vacation in Bangkok. He bought some diamonds from a dealer who said his name was Alain Gauthier. Gauthier invited Hakim to visit the famous jewel mines at Chanthaburi. On Nov. 28 Hakim's body was found on the beach at Pattaya. It had been drenched in gasoline and set afire...
...dummy. Watch the ball!" According to Gallwey, such self-abuse is highly destructive. So is what he calls the "Oh-Oh Experience"?as in "Oh-Oh! Here comes a backhand." Gallwey pioneered "yoga tennis" (or Zennis, as some people call it). From his Inner Game Institute above Malibu Beach, Calif., he has urged hundreds of thousands of students, TV viewers and readers to improve their game by shutting up that judgmental and frightened voice. Stop trying so hard, he argues. Let the body and racquet emulate "the unthinking spontaneity of the leopard" and do what comes naturally...
...wish to improve their game or their court manners without benefit of Eastern philosophy are free (at $200 for five days' instruction, plus room and board) to try Gallwey's most eminent competition. By California standards, it is just down the road, at Coto de Caza near Laguna Beach, a 5,000-acre mission-cum-tennis college presided over by Vic Braden, 47. Though Braden bears a faint resemblance to a vest-pocket Buddha and has a graduate degree in psychology, his methods epitomize two current hopes of Western civilization?a sense of humor and trust in technology...