Word: skippers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior Marie Roehm, the team's "A" Division skipper, will sail in Radcliffe's first boat. Junior Sarah Herrick and sophomore Anne Johnson are in the running for command of the second vessel...
...markers in cutthroat weekend races. But young John Lipscomb, 18, and his father James, a writer and first-rate cinematographer (Blue Water, White Death), realized the total dream. James Lipscomb was able to sell the idea of a film about such a voyage. As a result, Son John became skipper of a 60-ft. schooner, the Four Winds. With a crew of four other boys, plus two camera technicians, the Lipscombs left San Pedro, Calif., on Nov. 9, 1971, for a 16,000-mile voyage to Singapore...
Many yachtsmen have been skeptical about the boat ever since her unusual design became known. "I hope she does not work," said one rival designer, "or I will have to forget everything I ever learned." Even Mariner's supporters had fears. Skipper Ted Turner thought the boat "did not look right" when he first saw her. M.I.T. Hydro-dynamicist Jerome Milgram, who did preliminary consulting for Chance, had warned in a 1972 article that promising test-tank readings might not be reliable...
...probing, Big Daddy pries out of Brick a reason for his refuge in alcohol: disgust at the world's hypocrisy--or "mendacity," as Brick puts it. Part of this disgust is self-disgust at the outcome of Brick's "pure and true" friendship with his now-dead football pal Skipper, a relationship that was homosexual on one side and, at least latently, on the other. Forced to face truth, Brick turns the tables and reveals that what Big Daddy thinks is a spastic colon is actually a metastasizing malignancy...
...great scene with Big Daddy, he performs with the right tempi and with shattering intensity. Still, it is a weakness of the script that Williams has not given us a fully-rounded portrait of Brick; we really know less about him than we do about his friend Skipper, whom we never...