Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, substitutes rich, poignant Beatlesque harmonies for the handful of blunt blues chord changes that used to characterize much of his work. Drifting is a lighter-than-air romantic ballad that could almost be sung by Crooner Johnny Mathis: "Drifting on a sea of forgotten teardrops/On a life-boat/Sailin' for your love/Sailin'home." Big-beat songs like Freedom and Nightbird Flyin' do hark back to the past, yet for once, there is no screech or reverberation to get in the way of the music. For the uninitiated-or for those who turned off when Jimi turned...
...daughter is married) in a pillared $150,000 house in the exclusive River Oaks section and hobnobs with Houston's social elite. He owns two cars (a Corvette and a Cadillac) and likes few things better than to water-ski in the wake of his 17-ft. power boat...
Whether we know it or not, we're all in the same boat. Pain is a common but not a shared experience. When one of the four dancers sinks to the ground, the others sidle away. Each character on stage can communicate only to the audience, not to the others down there with him. And, of course, there's the question, IS there an audience-or is that just a convention? Certainly no one gets up to help the sufferers on stage. A second dance follows a voice over a loudspeaker. Colorless, but with scrupulously correct intonation, it says: "Well...
...dancer. Garry is the president of a small manufacturing company. Bob translates Russian at the Pentagon. Along with Dan, Joel, Gail, Becky and a dozen others, they are having a discussion about travel by freighter, the virtues of Europe's railroad pass and a little-known boat trip between Venice and Israel. Their conversation is, in short, the conventional chatter of the well-traveled. What is unconventional about the discussion is that Ann is in New York, Garry in California, Bob in Virginia and the others scattered along the East Coast. The international travelers' group of TeleSessions...
Other human pollutants showed up in the remotest areas. After sailing across the Atlantic in a reed boat last summer, Explorer Thor Heyerdahl reported that stinking nodules of oil covered a 1,400-mile stretch of midocean. Apparently the oil was dumped by ships cleaning their tanks. Since 1950, warned Jacques-Yves Cousteau, pollution and overfishing have killed 40% of marine life in the oceans. Meeting in Malta and Rome, scientists charted ways to save the seas ?provided international cooperation can be achieved...