Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when office workers lunch by a fountain and hope for a strong wind. Shoppers browse through Chicago's Hammacher Schlemmer, lured by inflatable water shoes (pontoons for the feet), or a solar-powered ventilated golf cap, or, for sun worshipers who don't know any better, a sun-tracking beach chair that rotates 360 degrees for maximum exposure. For those who prefer refrigeration to recreation, swank, Dallas-based Neiman Marcus is prepared to cater a private picnic for customers in its fur vault, which is kept at a constant 40 degrees...
...watch, typically, Jaws, Creature from the Black Lagoon (this in 3-D) or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Movies are free after patrons pay a $14.95 general-admission fee, $9.50 after 5 p.m. "This is the prototypical Southern California experience," says park spokesman Stan Friedman. "It combines the beach, swimming and Hollywood all in one place...
...cigarette advertising, the Camel ad was a handy piece of evidence. "The most appalling in decades," declared physician Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen, a Washington consumer group. The four-page Camel ad, which was aimed at vacation-bound youths, offered tips like "how to impress someone at the beach: Run into the water, grab someone and drag her back to the shore, as if you've saved her from drowning. The more she kicks and screams the better...
...handle the cleanup, Exxon has deployed an army of 10,500 workers and a flotilla of vessels. Some 3,000 beach cleaners wield high-pressure hoses in twelve-hour shifts to scour the crude from rocky shorelines. The task must be repeated often because tides wash the oil back onto beaches that have just been cleaned...
Ahmad's other projects for the summer included making a collage based on the film Do the Right Thing, designing a beach house, analyzing a building, making rough sketches and redesigning a bookstore which, in the program's scenario, had burned down...