Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have read the transcripts of the tapes--that is, of course, the transcripts of those tapes that have not been "lost," or erased by the vagrant finger and heavy foot of Rose Mary Woods, or are not obscured by the Marine Band striking up "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean" just as the President starts to answer a question about pay-offs to the Watergate defendants. Who could believe the tapes except on blind faith, after two of the most critical have disappeared and electronics experts have testified that the accidental erasure of another actually sounds like a botched attempt...
SUCH IDEAS LODGE entangled and warped in the eager boy and a diet of such Shangri-Las only feeds on itself. No lifeline is such romanticism, cut off from the very possibility of consistent and linear thought. Yes, lies in boxes stacked one by one along the ocean in a strip twenty miles long. Neon-emblemed inns and palaces, similar as a strip of concrete dolls notched with the original names of romance glowing from pastel tubes. Aku-Tiki, Capri, Ritz, Rivera, Bali Hai, Lodi. Still the ever more poignant essence remained, barely visible to this feeble romantic shell...
With the comet Kahouteck, a new fervor of denial is called for and the bigs cars which once paraded by the ocean's edge are suddenly forgotten in this new age, ashtrays big as bathtubs unfulfilled. The new car aerosol, eau de new car, settles feebly into the floormats, unsmelled. These cars to be remaindered. Their loss to the nation would in a sense be a measure of the boy's unfulfilled responsibility, a symbol of his removal from the social machinery. His capacity to do good for his fellow citizens was as fleeting as the tire tracks...
...think the trend's going to last very long," Falk says. "All it needs is for another hit to come along in another area and then there'll be a lot of shows in that area. Anyway, to me the big dividing line is between the ocean of crap cliche and the small amount of quality." Wherever the pendulum may swing, Columbo and Falk are on the right side of that line...
McGuane is rhapsodic in his meticulous, almost poetic description of the inspiration the ocean offers Skelton--seascapes of rocky bottom and tide-waved weeds; schools of fish gliding instinctively past each other without colliding; the expert crafting from scratch of Tom's skiff; the art of guiding that provides a framework within which Skelton makes his last ditch attempt to integrate his psyche with the natural world. Guiding is a one-man job, but Hemingway style requires full exertion of Skelton's intellect, intuition and physical strength in mastering fishing equipment and tides, navigating channels and neighboring keys, and sniffing...