Word: beaching
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...this renewed season of diet vows and basking on the beach, two provocative new books take out after the often maniacal American pursuit of health and the perfect physique. Professor Barsky's book, Worried Sick: Our Troubled Quest for Wellness (Little, Brown; 266 pages; $17.95), charges that Americans "don't live exuberantly but apprehensively, as if our bodies are dormant adversaries, programmed for betrayal at any moment." Another broadside comes from University of Connecticut Sociologist Barry Glassner in Bodies: Why We Look the Way We Do (And How We Feel About It) (Putnam; 288 pages; $19.95). Glassner takes America...
...Fourth of July weekend, and last week Professor Bubble demonstrated the miracles of surface tension. Next Sunday, the Sea Chanty Singers and Storytellers from the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut will tell children about the New England ocean life, and for its final weekend, Summer Splash will host a beach party complete with 70 tons of imported sand...
...going to bring in sand, beach balls, beach games and music to create the atmosphere of a beach right here in Boston," says Eaton. "We won't use the water from the harbor, of course. But we want the beach party to be symbolic of that day in the future when the people of the inner city water areas can use the local water. This all goes along with the Harbor Clean-Up project. We want the water to be enjoyed as clean...
...just say it's a dream that we'll have a water park someday," says Eaton. "It would be wonderful to have a place for art, performances, sculpture, and beach and water that the entire inner city community could enjoy...
Eaton also attributes the success of the exhibit to new attitudes toward sun and long days at the beach. "I think more and more parents are beginning to realize that a child's predisposition to skin cancer beings when he is young. So you don't want your child baking out on the beach, but you also don't want him cooped up inside. This exhibit is outdoors but it's shaded and cool, and some parents may be taking advantage of the fact that it's recreational but non-dangerous...