Word: lifeguarding
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...students will simply discover that at the firms where they apply for work the catch-word is firing, not hiring. Others will feel the effect of the recession less directly. The Massachusetts student who reapplies for his or her summer lifeguard job will be told that seasonal job applications are now channelled through the Division of Employment Security, which gives preference to veterans, minorities, and unemployed heads of households. The student will lose...
...STORY of the vagabond was a story of other people's lives as they intersected ours. It was a story of the sadly sweet man we met in the diner just off Route 46, or the educated lifeguard at a pool in London. Or the hippie women, vacantly following in down the street late at night. Or a little French hunchback having fantasies of war against the road of the sea. They all pulled me out of myself for a while and I loved them. They were all little-love affairs suspended in time...
...Just around that time I had been laid up in the hospital with hepatitis. I had been delirious for a few days, and when I woke up, I told my wife we had to find some land. I just got fed up with working as a lifeguard. You remember me down at the Safari Motel, I was a lifeguard there. Selling suntan lotion. I just got tired of the Safari Motel and phony people. When you're a lifeguard you've got to sell your products. Make 'em buy shit to put on their skins. Sell 'em a buncha lies...
Died. Jack E. Leonard, 62, nightclub and TV comic who made the abrasive, one-line gag into an art form; of complications following heart surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime lifeguard, Leonard began competing in Charleston contests during the '20s, then graduated to the big-band circuit as a comedian. Portraying the angry, fast-talking fat man (his weight yo-yoed between 200 and 330 lbs.), he eventually became a frequent TV guest whose comedy format never varied-a skeleton routine augmented by ad-lib insults to audience and fellow performers alike. "I could be funny for hours on your...
...Paul Bragg, 91, claims that his lifeguard's physique was the result of two hours of daily exercise at Honolulu's Waikiki Beach and his special diet. He eats natural foods-fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, but little meat and no salt; he plans to live...