Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publication of a classified White House "Talking Paper," instructing a presidential assistant to "put someone on The Washington Post to needle Kay Graham...set up calls or letters every day from the viewpoint of 'I hate Nixon but you're hurting our cause in being so childish, ridiculous and overboard in your constant criticism...
...Exterminating Angel is disappointing Bunuel. His symbolism, for once, goes overboard without being effective. Usually Bunuel goes over-board--in outrageous fashion--but is effective. This movie should probably be described as fascinating, nevertheless...
...trickle of water distilled in a pressure cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into the frigid ocean...
...glamour entries were not the only ones in trouble. Beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the "roaring forties" justified their ill repute. Italy's Tauranga lost a crewman to the angry sea, and Dominique Guillet, captain of the French yawl 33 Export, was tossed overboard and lost when his safety harness snapped during a squall. Then came the terrifying moment when heavy seas rolled the Mexican ketch Sayula II so far her masts were deep under water. "There was no warning," recalls Crewman Keith Lorence. "Suddenly there was a big crash and the lights went out. She righted herself...
...STORY is of a search, of course, of someone always heading somewhere else. "Kimberly always had to go overboard," Harley says. "She kept trying to get into the center of life and kept getting let down by it." The winter of 1968-69, Kimberly was in Ann Arbor, and it was there that she lost herself if she had not sometime before...