Word: mermaids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roseate spoonbills. They are mystified by the anhinga, a prehistoric bird that must spread and dry its wings after diving for fish, or drown from lack of natural-body-oil protection. On rare occasions, they glimpse the manatee-a huge sea cow that sailors once imagined to be a mermaid...
...planning to sell their cooperative apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Apart from a single meeting with foreign-policy advisers in Florida late in the week, Nixon had a family holiday, dividing his time between Key Biscayne and two privately owned islets in the Bahamas, Grand Cay and Mermaid...
...interest in the last years of his life. When it came to technical matters, he was a perfectionist; he had the huge shade tree at the Tahitian Terrace pruned to better his view, and then had new branches stuck on to restore the tree's symmetry. Yet the mermaid who drifts by during the otherwise believable submarine ride is bare-breasted but lacks nipples...
...wild paintings of Georgio and miscellaneous cohorts--she was their patron goddess. Her top-floor studio which led onto the terrace and pool, was hung with eleven portraits done by thankful young admiring artists she had helped. Not flattering ones only. In one she was a pale-green mermaid, with an ochre heart, but still with her own silky orange hair. At 45, her bikinied figure was a source of envy to those of her female contemporaries prone to envy...
...balance ups with downs, Doris plays mermaid for her salty dad, Arthur Godfrey, who makes his painless and pointless film debut as the skipper of a glass bottom boat for sea-sighters. At one point Godfrey takes up his ukulele to strum a Doris Day hit tune of yore. The old pro may believe that reminiscing is as good a way as any to buoy up spirits aboard a doomed ship...