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...first craft to cross the finish line was a sleek double kayak from Dunster House. Its speed, accomplished by a mundane design, precluded the entry from winning any appearance awards...
...brightest kid in the class run through his homework, dogged, letter perfect and without inspiration. His movies since M. Hulot's debut have been very like the best scene in that film, where Hulot, out for a little recreation, finds himself slowly and inescapably folding up in a kayak, then sinking majestically beneath the sea. ·Jay Cocks
Meanwhile, the East Germans began to pile up points, in and out of the water, in their determined and carefully planned bid for Olympic pre-eminence (TIME, June 5, 1972). So meticulous were their preparations. they sent an inspection team to study the tortuous kayak and canoeing course built near Munich, then had it reproduced for training in Saxony on the Pleisse River. They were rewarded with two gold medals. One more gold medal went to World Champion Backstroker Roland Matthes in the 100-meter event, a repeat of his performance in Mexico City. By week's end the East...
Skolimowski fills his backgrounds with imagery (a painter covering a wall in red, a man in the swimming pool rolling over and over in a kayak) that is both disorienting and quite funny. Mike is clearly descended from the manic protagonists embodied by Jean-Pierre Leaud in Godard's films and in Skolimowski's Le Départ. They all suffer their youth as if it were a wound...
There was no sign of the girl in the pink bikini. The boy in white shrugged, "Well, I'll call her tomorrow," he said, and walked off. Jennifer tipped herself over, but couldn't complete the roll and had to push herself from the kayak. She came to the surface, coughing from the water she swallowed, and then burst out laughing with...