Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's eight Olympic rowing team is the idea of being late for practice--not missing it, mind you, but merely being a little late--or in some other way letting down her fellow rowers. "I had this dream that I was supposed to bring the inside of the boat to practice," says Betsy McCagg, "and I forgot it. So we sat in the boat, but there was nothing to hold the seats up, and the boat collapsed. It was like sitting in a plastic bag, because I had all the parts in my house." Teammates Annie Kakela and Mary...
...during a break, that these young women are Olympians. For in their unstudied and hilarious way, they will talk, or rather riff, about nearly anything: their boyfriends or the lack thereof, the body-fat ratios of the rowers on the men's team, how the Southern Belle paddle-wheel boat will sometimes cruise by them so the tour guide can say, "Off to the right, we have the Olympic rowing team. Take a closer look, ladies and gentleman, 'cause some of them have legs as big as a man's!" They'll discuss anything, that is, but the pressure they...
...Eight live in fear of Buschbacher, 38. He coached the 1988 East German women's team to Olympic glory and in 1991 became the first national women's coach the U.S. team has ever had, leading the women rowers, including those in the four- and two-person boats, to take four out of five gold medals in the 1995 world championships. All conversations with the Eight, somehow, lead to Buschbacher; his is the only opinion that matters. When he addresses the team, each woman grows perfectly still; when he follows the boat in his launch, shouting out a steady stream...
...raising for the party or attends a "unity rally," which, aides contend, is really different from a "Dole rally" because unity rallies focus on promoting other Republican candidates. Dole's travel last Thursday was almost completely arranged by the party because he attended a fund raiser on a paddle boat on the Ohio River, a "unity rally" at the landing in Louisville, Kentucky, and later another "unity" barbecue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
...years later, he painted The Gulf Stream, moving this apprehension from animal to man. A black sailor lies on the afterdeck of a dismasted sloop, adrift and rudderless in the deep Caribbean blue. Enormous sharks circle the boat. Their ominousness is reinforced by the zone of black water from which they rise. (The catalog, rather absurdly, suggests that celibate Homer was invoking that hoary phantom of the Freudian couch, the vagina dentata. This could make sense only to an art historian who has never been near a live shark.) On the horizon, a square-rigger sails indifferently...