Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traveling with Paul, an Italian sailor who was taking photos for a travel journal, and through his camera eye I saw people making do with what they had. Out of each ornately carved home there were electrical wires. Above several, for instance, there stood television antennae and generators. The villagers took from the land and from technology what was necessary. And no more...
...picture of relaxed domesticity as they welcome a visitor to the lighthouse they call home on Southern Island, a 22-acre retreat off the coast of Maine. Tanned and fit, with the kind of face the Romans used to impress on coins, Wyeth, 69, wears a beige sailor's sweater and beige twill pants; his silver-blond hair is closely cropped, like any good sea captain's. Wyeth has been out painting this morning, as he has done every morning for 50 years. "I'm like a prostitute," he says, laughing. "I'm never off duty." As he chats with...
...hired allegedly masqueraded as social workers to persuade poor women to give up their babies. Their reward: 1,000 cruzados ($72) for each infant procured. Rosi Jorje, 18, says she met a "social worker" last October when she was six months pregnant. Since the father of her baby, a sailor, had disappeared, she accepted the woman's help. In exchange for medical care, Jorje promised to give up her baby when it was born. "The social worker told me if I decided I still wanted to keep the baby, that would be all right too," she explains. "When Daniela...
...Theresa's for-thright illegality, catches a glimpse of HIM. Blond-haired, blue-eyed, muscular, and shyly smiling back at her, the young man at the other end of the bar would seem to be ideal in every way, except for the CCCP stenciled across the brim of his sailor's cap. A sailor and a Communist to boot--whoever said love was going to be easy...
Leery of the disillusionment of the hopeless romantic, Elaine tries to emotionally back away from Peter all throughout the next day as she shows him the sights. (Apparently, there is something to see in Liverpool or so Director Bernard would have us believe.) Peter's a sailor. He's probably got a girl in every port. Maybe what she's feeling isn't love at all--just infatuation which will fade as soon as Peter's out of sight. Doubts vaporize as the two intertwine their fingers across the chain link fence on the docks beside Peter's ship, however...