Word: sailboating
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Some swap offers sound too good to be true. A resident of Turtle Cove, Jamaica, is willing to turn over his four-bedroom house with private beach, swimming pool set in a natural garden, car, dinghy and sailboat, plus the services of a butler, cook, maid and gardener. He wants in exchange a big-city apartment. And he will settle for any one of six cities-New York, London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Geneva. But he is choosy. After thumbing through dozens of offers, he still has not found one sumptuous enough to suit him. Time is running short...
...murders a Dutch hostage taken by the pirates, thus setting the stage for the film's incisive postlude. Safely delivered to England, her former captors gone to the gallows charged with her crime, Emily, like any pretty English schoolgirl, stands by a pretty English pond watching a toy sailboat drift away. Only the eyes reveal that within her child's body dwells a pint-sized Circe attuned to evils as old as the human heart...
...wind is important; so is the cut of the sails as well as the skill and care of the men who designed and built the boat. But to Corny Shields a racing sailboat-the only kind in which he is interested-is driven mainly by the skipper's will to win. As just about the most successful racing skipper of this century (TIME cover, July 27, 1953), Corny Shields has, inevitably, the most indomitable will to win. "Racing," he admits frankly in this autobiography and sailor's guidebook, "is the aspect of sailing that has gripped...
...from Cat. His father and mother were tomato farmers on Cat Island in the Bahamas. Once or twice a year, they went to Florida in a small sailboat to sell their tomatoes, and on one of these trips their eighth child, Sidney, was born, thus becoming an American citizen by a fluke that turned out to be lucky. The tomato farm died in an agricultural disaster year. At 15, Sidney was coasting toward delinquency. His father, deciding that the boy's American citizenship might save him, sent him to live with a brother in Miami...
...bourgeois ideal has really been liquidated behind the Iron Curtain, the Polish drama Knife in the Water does little to prove it. In telling the tale of a Warsaw couple's sailboat holiday, writer-director Roman Polanski depicts a Communist life complete with portable radios and Prince Albert tobacco. More surprisingly, the story makes no effort to grapple with the ideological issues its materialism raises. The striking affluence of the characters is ignored and they are examined without regard to the society that surrounds them...