Word: rey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marina del Rey, home to 10,000 pleasure craft, a young single man was smitten by a young single woman. His occupation: photographer. Her occupation: secretary-actress. Several rounds of tequila preceded her confession that she liked to get "a little kinky" sometimes. The photographer had no personal experience with kinkiness but lied that he had. At her apartment, she suggested that she get undressed and that he tie her up and take some pictures...
DIED. Dennis Wilson, 39, boisterous, handsome drummer, keyboardist and singer of California's enduring rock-'n'-roll band the Beach Boys; of accidental drowning when he dived off a boat slip into 12 ft. of water; in Marina Del Rey, Calif. Wilson, the Beach Boys' only genuine surfer, named the upbeat, harmonizing quintet that since 1961 has glorified the sea, the sun, teen love and cars in such hits as Good Vibrations, California Girls and Surfin' U.S.A. Although Wilson often feuded with other group members, he was on board for the satisfying moment last summer...
...vigné in a lyrical essay: "This great lady, this robust and fertile letter writer, who in our age would probably have been one of the great novelists ..." Thornton Wilder sketched an invidious portrait of the 17th century French author in The Bridge of San Luis Rey; the poet Alphonse Lamartine called her the Petrarch of French prose; Proust compared her art to Dostoyevsky...
...with many American innovations, gelato has swirled out from California. In the past year, several scoopfuls of competing companies have opened retail shops in Beverly Hills, Marina del Rey, Studio City and other communities. Some of the stores, notably the dozen or so high-tech outlets owned by the San Francisco-based Gelato Classico chain, cannot meet the demand. Some, like A1 Gelato in Elmwood Park outside Chicago and the art deco Gelati per Tutti on Hollywood's trendy Melrose Avenue, have become landmarks, packing in the pilgrims as thick as the product. In hundreds of supermarkets, brightly colored...
...rowing world this weekened East met West, and contract to what Jim Morrison might sing, on the waters of Ballona Creek in Marina del Rey Saturday, the Harvard varsity heavyweight showed 12,000 California fans lining the banks that, at least in crew, the East is the best...