Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone is of fatigue and mannerism. Everyone complains that the Biennale, like art itself, is in decline; such complaints are a necessary part of the ritual of visiting it. But this year in particular the visitor feels like a tourist in a glass-bottomed boat, gliding over a dying reef: here a brilliant polyp, there a parrot fish or sea fan, but acres of dead whitishgray coral to tell the real story...
Mary C. Hennessey '84-5 spent her year dishing out food to the homeless on Los Angeles' Skid-Row. Pamela Leroy '82-4 spent 15 months sailing along Australia's Great Barrier Reef, picking potatoes in New Zealand, and hiking through Thailand, Hong Kong, China, and Japan. Dennis Crowley '75-'85 taught music, conducted and worked as an MIT staff librarian in his decade away from Harvard...
Peter Bird, 36, is a London-based photographer who was rescued on June 14 on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, after 296 days of rowing 9,560 miles alone across the Pacific from San Francisco. He had abandoned a successful photography business and left a girlfriend ashore, and he recalls fretting for months about why he was risking his life. "I invented all sorts of answers, but none of them was honest." The truth dawned in midocean, as he was listening to a radio interview with a man who, as he remembers, had resailed the route Captain Bligh followed...
...time listening to the BBC and brooding about nuclear warfare and Israel's invasion of Lebanon. In tapes he made at the time, his speech is painfully slow; photos he made of himself show a sad and serious face. When his boat broke up on the Barrier Reef, as he is careful to say, he was a mere 33 miles short of landfall...
...code, which will serve as a model for states, has been in the works since the A.B.A. created a commission in 1977 to draft revised standards. The effort soon struck a reef of controversy over the confidentiality issue. The commission had recommended that attorneys be permitted to disclose certain contemplated illegal actions of clients, such as offering fraudulent stock or planning a bribe. The proposal was voted down at the association's midyear meeting last February. Reformers within the tradition-bound A.B.A. had to take half-a-loaf satisfaction from a compromise last week that would allow attorneys...