Word: sailoring
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...manage to edge out two boats piloted by the peers, despite getting caught around a buoy and running aground, again. At the end of the race we hadn't capsized, we hadn't come in dead last, and while my boss now knew that I could swear like a sailor, he hadn't fired...
...story's time is not linear, but instead meshes the narrative of her work in Sri Lanka with flashes of her childhood and her affair with a married author. The first major turning point of the story is the pair's discovery of a skeleton, who they dub Sailor...
...Sailor becomes the focal point of the story as the struggle to name him becomes a struggle for power. Ananda is recruited to reconstruct the man's head as Anil pieces together the man's past through the history of his bones. Everyone suspects that if his identity is revealed, the government will finally be shown responsible for the killings...
...hands of his ancestors. Sir Rutheven has faked his own death and has disguised himself as the sweet, disarming young farmer Robin Oakapple, who has such low self-esteem that he cannot confess his love to Rose without the help of his long-lost foster brother, the entertaining sailor Richard Dauntless (Francis Crick '03). Angle is ideally cast as the naive, helpless Robin, who becomes even more inept at doing his daily evil deed once his true identity is revealed, although he is creative in his short-lived crime spree, managing to disinherit his unborn son and forge...
...amphora suggests "deep" time, the Greco-Roman past of the Catalan coast. A distant woman, perhaps the constantly remembered nurse of Dali's childhood, is almost bleached out by the sunlight. In a stranded boat, another woman, probably his muse and wife Gala, confronts a boy in a sailor suit who can be none other than Dali himself. And on the left, the hated figure of Dali's father strides along in a three-piece suit, casting a long shadow...