Word: rowboat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flaming Rowboat. To test his assumptions, Sakkas ordered the construction of dozens of flat mirrors that were covered with a thin reflecting sheet of polished copper. Each was about 5 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, small enough to be handled by one person. The Greek navy provided the men, the site and the target: a wooden rowboat with a tar-coated, plywood silhouette of a Roman galley attached to one side. When all was ready, Sakkas' burning-glass experiment took place early this month at the Skaramanga naval base outside Athens. After lining up 70 mirror-bearing sailors...
...Ship of Fools. Although the shoe fits, this is neither the story of U.S.S. Pueblo nor a rowboat full of Stanley Kramer devotees. A brilliant cast including Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner, Vivien Leigh, and the diminutive Michael Dunn nearly succeed in saving the sinking vessel, but there are too many of them and Kramer does not know how to keep them out of each other's way. Dunn's last scene is a masterpiece of monologue, and only this effort keeps both cast and audience from leaning over the side in unison. Channel...
...ride into a puberty rise that neither can stomach. The result is a traumatized child and a vomiting father Fogarty finishes off the weekend playing Monopoly and slugging gin on the sly at the local AA chapter, and finally pursuing what he thinks is the White While in a rowboat on the Central Park lagoon," "It made little difference when the thing barked," the story ends, "Fogarty was back in action...
...literally true. Chil dren are often cruel but rarely that stupid. Quint lapses into a sodden, brogue-trotting Irishman, who mumbles to Miles, "If you love someone, sometimes you really want to kill them." Pow! Wilde! The governess drowns in the tarn - from an acute case of sabotaged rowboat. Quint is struck down, like St. Sebastian, by Miles' bow and arrow...
...tremendous cut in appropriations suffered by NASA at the hands of Congress makes about as much sense to me as Queen Isabella sending Columbus to sea in a rowboat...