Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given the dazzling array of equipment available, some fishermen go overboard. That's My Hon, a 90-ft. fishing palace owned by Ted Sabarese, a New Jersey computer-company executive, is awash with $210,000 worth of angling gadgetry. Its cabin is a war room of screens, gauges and graphs, including three position finders, a satellite navigation system and three depth sounders. Says Dick Greiner, the yacht's skipper: "You're only as good as the equipment...
...times, Angell goes overboard, romanticizing all facets of the game--even the drunk fans in the bleachers--as larger than life. Angell seems to claim baseball as the wonder cure for all of society's larger problems. Baseball, he writes, "opens our eyes." Fans of the game, he argues, "are baffled but still learning, and we still keep coming back for more...
...meanness of spirit they cannot honorably sustain. In movie terms, they wear the mask of the Me-First '80s only to reveal the crinkly face of '30s romantic farce. Two of them boast the most ingratiating doll faces in today's Hollywood: the cartoon countenance of Goldie Hawn, in Overboard, and the Garbage Pail Kid visage of Danny DeVito, in Throw Momma from the Train...
...inevitable. Indeed, hundreds of inhabitants of the impoverished Caribbean nation have perished on the dangerous 90-mile journey across the Mona Passage between the two islands. Most of the dead are victims of fierce tropical storms or unscrupulous sea captains who take their passengers' money only to throw them overboard or leave them on deserted islands to starve. Despite the odds, some 150,000 Dominicans have managed in the past few years to make it to Puerto Rico...
These students who aim for complete assimilation, often at odds with their upbringing, go completely overboard in their effort to become the typical Harvard student. Some even go so far as to join the final clubs which implicitly look down upon them and use them for the sake of their image. However much this course may be the easier one, it brings with it the disgust of one's fellow minorities...