Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony of the crisis over the Cuban boat people is that many of those who risked their lives to get to the U.S. aboard rickety, homemade craft are taking to the water again. This time, though, they are heading back to Cuba. They lay their cots over the barbed wire that blocks their path to Guantanamo Bay. If they reach the water and swim to the other side, they'll be in Cuban territory...
...illustrated by Roy Gerrard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $15), features a huge, toothy creature that serves as a pet to a couple of Egyptian kids: "In ancient Egypt, long ago,/ Beside the River Nile,/ A brother and a sister/ Found a baby crocodile." The kids stow away on a boat: "The naughty twosome stayed concealed/ Until the break of day./ By then their little village/ Was a hundred miles away...
...nine days to confess to the drownings of her two children after faking a carjacking in Union, S.C.; today a grand jury deliberated less than three hours before indicting her on murder charges in connection with the incident. Smith, 23, was officially accused of pushing her car down a boat ramp into John D. Long Lake on October 25 while her kids, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex, plunged to their deaths while strapped in their car seats. Prosecutors haven't decided whether to seek the death penalty. Smith's lawyer, David Bruck, said today that...
...study of human nature, Lifeboat is revealing on the subject of the depths people will stoop to (and rise to) to save their life. But much of the delivery gets lost in all the strutting and posing the actors do. Moreover, there are moments when everyone on the boat is holding separate conversations which seem unimportant since none of them is discernable with all the mutter of activity...
...show is in your face. Literally. At the end, when the passengers are saved in an anti-climatic moment, a champagne bottle is popped open. At the performance I attended, a few audience members got wet. When the three women who serve as the sea whip sheets at the boat members to affect a storm, the sheets came dangerously close to slapping me in the face. These three women (Anatavia Marie Brown, Ji-Ho Lee, and Bianca Hovey) played their parts with a pokerface and really wailed the cast members during the "storm...