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...stepped out on deck. The air was cool (mid-50s) and stunningly clear after the day's rainstorms. She untied the rubber dinghy from the stern and then, according to Noguchi, fell from the Splendour into the 63° F water, bruising her left cheek as she tumbled overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The last hours of Natalie Wood | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

Sullivan said that Cambridge needed home rule, adding, "we've got to keep our heads high and our hands up to keep from falling overboard...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Senate to Approve 21/2 Exemption Bill | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...probably just as many slip in without getting caught. The 600-mile journey from Haiti is often arduous, a measure of how desperately Haitians want to leave their country. Many sell all their possessions and hire professional smugglers, who often starve them, beat them, or even dump them overboard. Others pool their money to buy a makeshift boat and then hire a local fisherman, who may know little about navigation, to bring them to America. The trip can easily end in tragedy, as happened when a rickety 30-ft. sailboat carrying 63 Haitians was swamped in the Florida surf last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Florida: Trouble in Paradise | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...blaming the Forum, or the Hair folk for that matter. With enough money for that many rounds of postering (three, I think) someone had to go overboard. Someone had to thing of putting up a lot of 8 1/2 x 11" sheets, each with one word from the epic string of hair-adjectives from the title track--braided, spangled, spaghettied, bushy, curly, and so forth...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Twelfth Night Twice | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...doesn't and couldn't try to be. He loves enough types of music--Reggae, Soul, Punk, and Rock and Roll--and listens to enough music (14 hours a day, brag his zealous press releases) to at least be accepted on his face value. Okay, so he went overboard and gave all the Ramones albums A's, and both NY Dolls Albums A-plusses. So what? He explains himself in a few sentences. There's non of the tortured delving into non existent souls. He trashes trash, and embraces fun, genius, and things between. I totally sympathize with the capsule...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: A Grade A Record Guide | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

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