Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sold Santa Claus to a local businessman who hired a high school student to wear the red suit and white beard during the tourist season. Santa's Kitchen, formerly a children's restaurant, now sports a swank cocktail lounge called the Reindeer Room overlooking the ocean. The merry-go-rounds are mostly idle; the train rarely makes the rounds of its tracks any more; the volume of mail trickled, then was shut off when the substation closed a year ago. Santa Claus, Calif., today is just an ordinary tourist attraction and the owner of a souvenir shop makes...
Although all this sounds exceptionally unexciting, the noises grow on you very quickly. Side two, entitled "There Whale Trip" (get it?), was recorded too close to the ocean's surface so there is a constant rush of water in the background. "After a few moments of listening." the blurb on the jacket says, "you will learn to hear much as a whale probably does, ignoring the background noises and focusing on the whale songs." And once again, the blurb is right. There you are, thinking as a whale does, splashing along just under the surface. You may soon drive your...
...Israelis are more interested in keeping the territories they won in 1967 than in settling the volatile situation in the Middle East. One drawback to the Dayan plan: it would enable Russian naval units to move freely through the Suez Canal to and from positions in the Indian Ocean and beyond. Australia and Japan have already indicated to the Israelis their concern over the implications of such a move...
...sandwiches for breakfast at 3 a. m. before heading out into the fields. . . . So they all stood there in their Pucci dresses, Gucci shoes, Capucci scarves, either imagining they were grape workers' wives or wondering if the goddamned wind would ever stop. The wind had come up off the ocean and it was wrecking everybody's hair. People were standing there with their Hands pressed against their heads as if the place had been struck by a brain-piercing ray from the Purple Dimension...
...look up and see all the tall, dwarfing white towers of Miami Beach. I wonder what I felt. Something indescribable. A plastic pool, plastic towers, but, high up, real stars. And, past the pool, a sudden drop to the beach itself. A big golden orange moon hanging above the ocean. Fierce waves crashing...