Word: foxtrotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Oliver Stone, Dye is a decorated Viet Nam veteran. His was among the first units to splash ashore there in 1965. Over the next decade, he saw buddies die at such hot spots as Hue and Foxtrot Ridge, and he was wounded three times by rockets and mortar fire. "We fought a hell of a war," he declares, "and until now, Hollywood didn't give a damn about getting it right...
...besieged her with love letters and flowers and took her for long walks on endless stretches of beach. He dressed up in an old raccoon coat to take her to Topsy, a local nightclub; he loved to hold her in his arms during the tango and foxtrot. On the second anniversary of their meeting, after she continued to turn down his proposals of marriage, the young swain wrote her, "When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds . . . he still resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened...
Mather House Dance: jazz, swing, foxtrot, waltz and jitterbug, featuring Harvard University Jazz Band, Mather House Dining Hall, Harvard, Saturday...
Only occasionally do weddings in 1983 approach that standard. The stunt wedding remains common enough, of course. It is usually performed with traditional vows, however, for the same reason that a dancing dog generally does the foxtrot; the bizarre does its best work in conventional forms. There are the hobbyist enthusiasms: the nudist nuptials, for example, and the ceremonies for skindivers performed underwater. In April a couple were married while circling above California's Santa Monica mountains, scrunched down with the minister in a single-engine Beechcraft Sierra. The rest of the wedding party, including the mother...
...Strait of Malacca, a channel 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Here too Soviet naval activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class subs, armed with antiship cruise missiles, prowl the South China Sea. Malacca is so shallow that subs must go through with at least their conning towers awash and therefore tend...