Word: bimini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hemingway, a short, oily, muscular man by her resentful description, was a brooding depressive, mostly absent, who tried desperately to be an outdoor guy like Ernest. Tried to be a father, at their first meeting in 10 years, when he took the 16-year-old Lorian marlin fishing off Bimini, lost his nerve and lost a great fish. She didn't know him, she writes, and wasn't able to comfort him, or help him laugh it off, or pretend that the failure was O.K. She certainly did not understand what became apparent later, that Greg's real passion...
...Bikini, Biloxi, Bimini and Miami, they are waiting for us to descend. Yes, we came from every place, all of these places. That is where we will go back to, only with a difference. Our differences will become their similarities, and vice versa. Did the place change or did we? Both of them changed and did not change. Nothing changed, and that changes everything. How soon some of us will assimilate, standing out from the crowd, in perfect conformity with the rest of us. We can take or leave us, but they will welcome...
...high costs in cities where they must work and the draining expense of things like child care. O.K. No sad violins for onetime yuppies now pulling down $100,000 a year. Things aren't so bad for them. But that income isn't exactly the stuff of winters in Bimini. And the new tax bill deals this bunch...
...that jobs win elections. When County Commissioner Hatfield tires of gloating over stealing a factory from Town Manager McCoy, he'll finally realize that he's hopelessly broken the county's budget for the next ten years. But by that time of course, Conglomerated Industries' consultants are vacationing in Bimini on the bonuses they've earned from this particular boondoggle...
Favorite moments of summer vacation "I went scuba diving in Bimini. That was cool. And there was a blues festival in Orlando that I really liked. All the top artists were there. Oh yeah--and Hurricane Emily. The waves for that were pretty...