Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrote a book, Paul Clifford, that unfortunately began, "It was a dark and stormy night. . ." Among the exquisitely bad sentences sent to the California (zip code: 95192) judges: "Screaming like a banshee, bargaining like a waterfront drug dealer, bleeding like a side of beef in an abattoir, the Chinese sailor croaked out one word: 'Firelight' (a code word? or a dying man's resurrection of a beloved childhood memory?) and fell to the ground, sprawled out like an epileptic lobster, clutching in his fist loosened by the merciful kiss of death fire of another sort...
...more often, many critics claim, the lines offer the veritable propaganda of capitalism and that great American faith if you try hard enough, you will succeed. "In trying times try harder," one tag beckons. "A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor," another states...
...face may seem familiar, and so may the military bearing. In four years of film acting, David Keith, 28, has had trouble getting out of boot-camp. He was a G.I. in Friendly Fire, a sailor in Back Roads and a spit-and-polish Navy flyer candidate in An Officer and a Gentleman. In The Lords of Discipline, Keith is back in uniform again, as a cadet at a Southern military academy. He gets the girl-Sophie Ward, 17-and by now has got military technique down permanently. "After all these movies," says Keith, "I've at least learned...
Regattas can involve up to eight hours of grueling efforts against opponents and the elements, Horn adds, contradicting the the popular myth of the gin and tonic sailor." Rotch agrees that anyone who has raced with the Harvard team knows there is a difference between pleasure sailing and collegiate racing...
Weld a well-known oceanic sailor and Anderson are personal friends, but officials said yesterday the yachtsman a gift was not contingent on Anderson's appointment...