Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Think of it: through the alchemy of imagination, the oceans disappear. Suddenly, the world would gain some 140 million sq. mi. of land, including mountains higher than Everest, volcanoes more powerful than Etna, chasms deeper than the Grand Canyon. By far the most pleasant scenery to man's eye-assuming anyone could survive in a world without water-would be the delicately terraced hills and snug valleys on the gently sloping continental shelves. The rest of the ocean floor would be mostly a vast wasteland of muddy ooze, as bleak in its way as the Sahara...
...first they were merely a source of fear, fascination and fish. Then, when the Phoenicians ranged over the Mediterranean in their graceful golahs about 3,300 years ago, the oceans also became a highway over which to carry national power and culture as well as trade. The story of civilization, in fact, is largely the story of bold seafaring peoples that quested for ever-farther shores. Athenians, Romans, Polynesians, Chinese, Iberians, French, English-all saw the ocean as a wilderness and a challenge...
...return Gurney and two of his aides, with the help of two local HUD officials, supposedly channeled mortgage insurance housing-project contracts to those kicking in. The indictment also charges that Gurney "corruptly solicited and accepted" a fifth-floor ocean-front apartment in a Vero Beach condominium in return for pressuring HUD to give the developer mortgage insurance...
Clapton's mature style-in songs like Give Me Strength and Let It Grow from his new album, 461 Ocean Boulevard-is free of the ostentatious virtuosity that sometimes disfigured his playing in the past. But the quicksilver runs and keyboard rampages that earned him the ironic nickname "Slow-hand" are still there. Sometimes Clapton turned his back to the audience to listen in turn to each musician in his excellent group-Carl Radle on bass, Dick Sims at the keyboards, Drummer Jamie Oldaker, Guitarist George Terry and Singer Yvonne Elliman...
...most part it plays itself in a straightforward manner, running two and a half hours. But he has chosen to underline the thematic importance of the sea. Not only do the waves move, but he also gives us a soundtrack of their swashing, and even an actual ocean mist. When Viola is washed up on the Illyrian shore, she turns and takes a long look at the ocean before telling the Captain, "Lead me on." At the very end, while the Clown sings the stanzas of "When that I was," the remaining characters gradually depart, leaving him alone; when...