Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prosperous Republican coal-mine owners, Lamm worked his way through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, even though he didn't have to, spending summers as a lumberjack in Oregon and an ore-boat deckhand on the Great Lakes. He became a C.P.A. as well as a lawyer, graduating from law school at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961, and eventually rose through the ranks of Colorado politics. As a state legislator in the 1960s, he pushed through one of the earliest pre-Roe v. Wade laws that permitted abortion in certain circumstances, which later became a national model...
...compelling. Ronet as the monstrous Philipe is the model of the Ugly American, throwing around money, speaking loudly, insulting everyone around him. His knife-in-the-back treatment of Tom-- he sets Tom adrift on a dinghy, embarrasses him by making him seem ill-bred, makes him steer the boat while he has sex with Marg-- makes him hard to like by any standards. The hapless Marg is wholly pitiable, toting around a guitar to which she croons mercilessly, plotting out her book on Fra Angelica, becoming a pawn in Philipe and Tom's rivalry and being utterly unable...
...believe the stuff that you guys know about each other, I don't even know that stuff about your father.' We're like sisters now, and we all trust each other implicitly about everything." Fuller, who in 1995 sailed on the Mighty Mary, the all-female boat competing in the America's Cup, agrees: "I've never been with a group of people so willing to put everything on the line to make the boat go fast. I love...
...should be noted, however, that these "sisters" are also world-class competitors, that to win their places in the boat they spent months competing against one another in pairs, that most of them are more than 6 ft. tall and weigh upwards of 160 lbs. And that things can get ugly when they're not moving water together. "Rowing is the most noncontact sport around," says Betsy McCagg, "so when we get in where we can actually touch each other, all hell breaks loose. We used to play basketball, but we're all centers. You'd get seven people...
Watching the team row, one can get lulled by their rhythms, by the catch, draw, release of their oars, by the sight of eight bodies moving as one. But if the viewer turns her head away for just a moment, the boat vanishes, whooshed out of sight up the Tennessee River by the silent power that is the Eight. And that is nothing compared with the display of force they plan for July. "I think we're ready to inflict ourselves on everyone else," says Betsy McCagg. "We're racers, so that's what we want...