Word: boated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civil rights movement never did really come to Keysville, and I'll admit that I was one of those who never really thought we needed it. Things were fine -- until we started trying to get something. There had been no problems because no one had ever rocked the boat. I kept reading these newspaper stories about Keysville blacks seeking political power. Then it hit me: power! The whites thought we were looking for power. I was looking for a better life. I had never even thought about what we were doing in terms of trying to get power...
POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). In a sequel to his best-selling detective novel Gorky Park, Smith sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko off on another bizarre case. The setting this time is a fishing boat on the Bering Sea; one dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace and violence...
Pierce's bitterness over his lot in life helps make him its prisoner. His quick temper has got him fired from jobs that might have enabled him to buy his boat and independence. Banks will not lend him money. He has no telephone at home because he ripped it out of the wall during a fit of anger. He poaches clams at a neighboring bird sanctuary, more out of orneriness than hope of profit. And, to complicate his existence still further, he has fallen into a love affair with Elsie Buttrick, the local game and fish warden...
...Pierce raise the $10,000 or so required to finish his boat and get it launched before the whole project sinks under debt and futility? How will he manage his passionate connection with Elsie while maintaining his marriage and giving no pain to his patient, long-suffering wife? Answers eventually arrive, but not before some spirited narrative interludes: vivid scenes of hunting and "sticking" swordfish on the high seas, a sexual encounter that turns into an extended bout of mud wrestling, a hair-raising attempt to outsail a major hurricane...
...first tableau showed a little owl-and-pussycat boat foundering in a tempest of billowing waves and lyrical lightning. For the next scenes, set in the land of some randy, warlike Pasha, the Soviets seemed to have unwound their every bolt of gaudy cloth. No fewer than five composers are credited with contributing to the noisy score; the choreography, some of it by Marius Petipa, is strictly cut and paste; the plot went down with the ship. But Le Corsaire provides the occasion for some florid dancing, especially in the hands of bravura technicians like Tatyana Terekhova and Farukh Ruzimatov...