Word: riverboats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commander Mars tried to solve the problem by asking for shore duty in England. The Admiralty sent him instead to New Zealand. With no married quarters available, Mars settled his family on an abandoned riverboat which he rented for half his pay. An extra living allowance was held up four years while the Admiralty in London and the government in New Zealand argued over who was to pay it. Mrs. Mars fell sick and once again her husband asked for duty in Britain. The Admiralty sent him to Hong Kong. His living allowance there failed to cover even the single...
...Best Actor Humphrey Bogart (who once snarled that Oscars are "hot air"), for his portrayal of a gin-soaked riverboat skipper in The African Queen (Horizon; United Artists...
...Charley Olnutt, the gin-oriented riverboat captain, Bogart is immense--not the same old "I wouldn't walk ten feet to watch Krakatoa explode" Bogart, but a new man, an epic slob. He revels in his new role, his eight day beard, dirty tennis shoes, and habit of drinking gin and river water for refreshment. And best of all, when he gets in a clinch with Hepburn, you can just barely detect him laughing at the whole concept of Charley Olnutt, the poor sinner reclaimed by patriotism and selfless love...
These are sad times. Since the turn of the century industrialization has captured the United States and turned many of the simple pleasures and traditions out to pasture. Like the spinning wheel, the pony express, and the riverboat, like the Post Road and the small country trail, many of the institutions which we associate with early America have been renovated or replaced--no longer considered adequate for the hustle and bustle of twentieth century America...
Zadkine's father was a riverboat builder in the Russian city of Smolensk, and the sculptor's ambition has always been to make his works "as beautiful and perfect as a well-built boat." That simile would never have occurred to classical sculptors, who took the human body as their measure of perfection. It partly explained the mixture of respect for his materials, trim severity and bargelike bluntness in Zadkine...