Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urge. "Jack is the first Irish Brahmin," said Paul Dever, a former Massachusetts Governor. He had both Harvard and Honey Fitz in him. He was an intellectual who could devastate any woman in the room and devour Melbourne in a speed reader's blitz and curse like the sailor that he also...
Boston Globe editor Thomas Winship said at the time, "It's not a red-letter day for the future of quality journalism in this country." Winship's apprehensions center on a man whose British papers run front-page headlines along the lines of, "Sailor Who Turned Into a Girl Witch"; whose New York Post in 1977 ran front-page coupons to draft Ed Koch for governor; and whose editorial instincts often appear geared as much towards winning exclusives as towards Wingo!, whose daily jack pots grow almost as fast as Murdoch's holding in the American press...
...weekend sailor, I thought the America's Cup was a showcase for sailing ability, design and innovation. So why all the furor? Come on, America, one John McEnroe is enough...
Boatbuilders, though, have now discovered a way for less wealthy skippers to act out their 12-meter fantasies. Several companies in the U.S. and Europe have sold hundreds of scaled-down versions of the yachts. The boats accommodate just one sailor and carry a price...
...radio interview with a man who, as he remembers, had resailed the route Captain Bligh followed after he was cast adrift from the Bounty by mutineers. "He had come up with all these reasons, to prove Bligh's logs were right, to prove Bligh was a good sailor, but none of it sounded right. It didn't fit. I thought, 'It's an adventure. You don't have to justify it. It's just an adventure...