Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salaam, which has become an important port of call for exiled members of the African National Congress. She has neither ambition nor money, no currency at all except her formidable good looks. The expatriate conspirators, white and black, who gather each afternoon to plot and gossip on Tamarisk Beach are distracted by the dark-eyed, full- breasted young woman in the skimpy yellow bathing suit. She is wooed by men who want not only to possess but to politicize her as well. After hearing Hillela admit that she does not understand anything that she has not directly experienced, a high...
...takes risks with Hillela. Feminists may not be happy with a character whose identity and importance depend so thoroughly on the men she sleeps with. Early in the novel the author starts dropping hints that Hillela will someday be famous, and that of course is what happens. The former beach girl becomes the wife and then the widow of an important black revolutionary, assassinated by South African security forces. She later marries another black, who becomes President of his (unnamed) liberated country. She hobnobs with Indira Gandhi and Bishop Desmond Tutu. She and her husband are honored guests...
...various ways the tiny Texas beach town of South Padre Island (pop. 1,052) was coping with an invasion of college students and the questionable distinction of being the newest hot spot on the spring-break circuit. A short causeway ride off the south Texas coast, South Padre Island has attracted students from some 70 campuses this year. By the end of the month nearly 200,000 had hit the local beaches, a fivefold increase from five years...
...seekers herald their arrival with windshield graffiti reading PADRE NAKED, TEQUILA TRUCK and SINK THE ISLAND. Youths have carted off street signs, & spray painted condo windows and littered the pristine beach with cans and bottles. Says Fire Department Aide Bobbye Dowda: "Ceilings are torn out. Kids dare you to run into them on the street...
After pumping iron to flush his muscles with blood, Remar slipped into a skimpy orange Speedo, donned a straw hat and strutted the beach before a line of spring-break beauties, who beamed and clapped in approval. Consensus on the flutter factor: 8 or 9, which is pretty amazing for someone who justifiably rated his hunk index at 0 a year ago. Even the college guys hooted and howled in agreement. An older fellow, Philip Finn, who was on vacation from Plains, Pa., was also awed, but confided to me, "What I'm interested in watching is whether he keeps...