Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrator, Brown sounds most at sea whenever he ventures a comment on activities ashore. Like any loquacious neighborhood, hobbyist who has gone overboard for home movies, he mixes obtuse observations of native customs with exuberant how-dy-do's ("Say hello, Lance. Atta baby!") to some of his surfing pals visited along the way. Perhaps wisely, Brown leaves analysis of the surf-cult mystique to seagoing sociologists, but demonstrates quite spiritedly that some of the brave souls mistaken for beachniks are, in fact, converts to a difficult, dangerous and dazzling sport...
...feel that he was along mainly for the ride. Tinkerbelle was slow-seven knots an hour top speed-but she was also uncapsizable and unsinkable. "I'm sure," he writes, "she could have crossed the ocean entirely on her own, without any help whatever from me." Manry fell overboard seven times, but since he was secured to Tinkerbelle by a lifeline, these adventures amounted to nothing more than unscheduled baths...
Occasionally his sense of showmanship swept him overboard. Asked recently if the bust of a woman purported to be after Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra di Benci, which the Met bought at a Parke-Bernet auction for $225, was really a Leonardo, Rorimer winced, said, "If you never see it exhibited in the Met, you will know...
...make to this idea of 'containment without isolation' is that it should be within the context of a peace settlement in Viet Nam. I still cannot see casting bread upon the waters to hungry sharks who will eat you up if you dare to put your toe overboard. But something has to be done within the context of giving the world a sense of peace...
...first couple of episodes, at least, the Dynamic Duo will be matching wits with The Riddler (Three men are in a boat with four cigarettes and no matches ... How can they smoke? Toss a cigarette overboard and make the boat a cigarette lighter). Maniacally played by Frank Gorshin, he "contrives his plots like artichokes ... you must pull apart the spiny leaves to get to the heart." Alfred, Batman's butler, does not look at all like he should, the police commissioner has no moustache, and somehow an Aunt Harriet has sneaked into the Batman's life; other than that...