Word: sailorful
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This is the one about the sailor and the whore, and is there anyone out there who still cares...
...unmarried whore has a son, who is part black and approximately twelve years old, just the age the sailor had reached when his own warmly remembered father died. It is immediately apparent that the sailor will begin to act as surrogate father. Indeed, it seems reasonable to expect that the movie will end with a shot of the sailor and the kid walking away from the camera, arms around each other, talking bravely about the future. Mark Rydell is not a director (The Fox, The Cowboys) to avert clichés or confound expectations. The only curiosity is what takes...
...Edward Kennedy was found to have bone cancer, a rare and sometimes fatal disease of children. As a result, Edward Jr., called Teddy, underwent amputation of his right leg in Georgetown University Hospital. The Senator's elder son, second of three children, was an ardent fledgling skier, sailor and football player. Loving sports is, of course, part of the Kennedy tradition. So, too, was his father's decision to participate in the wedding of his niece as scheduled, standing in for his dead brother to give the bride away the same morning that his son was operated...
...Sailor-Poet. But according to Day, young Lowry was not just a budding aesthete. After losing his baby fat, he turned into a credible rugger player, a strong swimmer and an excellent golfer. He wrote jazz songs and played the ukulele, an instrument that accompanied him all his life. He even spent a year as a deck hand aboard a freighter (driven to the dock in the family Rolls). Upon his return he entered Cambridge, where he played the experienced sailor-poet, began work on his first novel, Ultramarine, and started serious drinking...
...defensive instinct. I would, in other words, convince them that I was unworthy of their attack, that I was harmless. At first this meant telling funny stories at the dinner table about the various fuck-ups in my private life: about being paralyzed with fear when a beautiful sailor tried to seduce me; about trying, bravely in the now or never spirit, to throw away my virginity one night, and waiting with eyes clenched and a rigid back, only to find that he was impotent; about having a Persona hallucination (where the faces merge upon the screen) with a best...