Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beneath a midnight Mediterranean sky, French customs agents last week approached the shrimp boat Caprice des Temps (Whim of Time) off the Riviera coast. The owner, a 58-year-old fishing-fleet operator named Marcel Boucan, refused to answer a radio order to cut his engines, so the agents fired shots across the vessel's bow and boarded it. Boucan frantically threw mysterious papers overboard and, while being taken back to port, slipped over the side. The next morning he was recaptured, exhausted, near the walls of Marseille's harbor fortress...
...agents had been watching the Caprice des Temps for some time -though for what they were never exactly sure. Captain Boucan had associated with cigarette smugglers in the past and his 60-ton, 216-ft. boat had been extensively refitted for transatlantic crossing (it had in fact made two trips to Miami). But it had not of late ventured noticeably from the coast -and certainly never to the shrimp-fishing grounds...
HENRY MILLER came to the life of the bohemians after the Lost Generation had already boarded the boat back to America. Miller was born in the same golden decade as Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But while all the others lived the life fantastic, he was enduring a worklife right in the belly of the capitalist whale, the Grand Hirer and Firer for the Cosmodemonic Company. Miller came to his expatriation and the realization that his destiny was as an artist when he was just on the verge of turning forty...
...joined by Premier Chou aboard a yellow and blue pleasure boat that proceeds in leisurely fashion past bridges and willows that were first described for the Western world by Marco Polo...
After the boat ride, Nixon invites the press to his guesthouse. In the chill wind, he explains that he could not brief on substance during the week because "I had to do everything I could to assure that we did not jeopardize possible agreement in some areas. Here was a long road and it had to be traveled with discretion." Already, he seems to be gearing back to his world, to California, Florida, Washington - to going home. The odyssey is nearly...