Word: lifeguard
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Then comes a visit to the swimming beach in Dixon, Ill., where Reagan was a lifeguard and where, he would eventually claim, he made 77 rescues over the years: "He was deeply tan, and at least four inches taller than when I had last seen him. His chest was bigger, his legs stronger and straighter... Presently he shrugged off the top of his damp suit. The loops fell away, leaving behind pale ghosts of themselves. Midges sang...
...Blair Witch Project, you missed The Minus Man trailer, perhaps the most intriguing preview of the year. It shows a teenage girl and her date leaving a viewing of The Minus Man. They talk about the movie all night. As the girl arrives at her job as a lifeguard, she finds that two swimmers have drowned because of her tardiness. Across the screen creep the words: "conversation follows...
...Have you seen the previews for The Minus Man? They had audiences buzzing before The Blair Witch Project when they pictured a young female lifeguard returning late to her job to find two dead people floating in the pool. Word is that the film is just as unpredictable as The Sixth Sense and more edgy than any of the summer spook-a-thons. Our team is hitting the Boston premiere and afterparty this week. We'll give you our report on the movie and the scene in the next issue...
Most of us cling to a version of summer left over from our childhood--a memory of opened hydrants, a lifeguard's whistle, the smell of cocoa butter on skin. For me, this has to include Vacation Bible School, held every summer at the Methodist church in my hometown. Kids would gather in the musty sanctuary for songs featuring hand gestures that seemed, for our brand of Methodism, dangerously close to dancing. We played Bible tag, memorized the books of the Old Testament and drank gallons of Kool-Aid out of waxy paper cups. Our teachers entertained us so well...
...better shape up her resume, Sandoval made a last-minute search for a job, sending off applications to the parks and recreation department, the U.N. and even the sanitation department. No luck so far, but she could always try Rockaway Beach. We checked--there's an opening for a lifeguard...