Word: snorkel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there's an idea for the Navy. I can already see it: a top-secret military program teaching cows how to swim and snorkel...
...plans are even grander at Disney World, where the company owns 47 sq. mi. of land. Earthmovers are clearing the way for Typhoon Lagoon, a 50-acre water park where visitors will be able to slide down a 95-ft. mountain, surf on 6-ft. waves and snorkel in pools filled with tropical fish. Opening this fall is the Pleasure Island night-life park, complete with rollerdrome, comedy warehouse, teen video club and jazz saloon. Eisner hopes customers will not remember too well the Pinocchio story, in which visitors to a place called Pleasure Island were turned into donkeys...
...part of the fun of this movie is its ready movement between the worlds of fantasy and reality. Unexpected things keep happening at such a clip that by the time we visit Alba to find her roller skating around the vast apartment while her lover cuts onions in a snorkel and face mask, we are ready to accept them. Maybe next year 007 will die his hair green and wear army boots...
...course, there have been excuses, and one or two of them may have been justified. Last year, for instance, the Tigers surprised the heavily-favored Crimson by showing up with flippers and snorkel gear and then moving the game to the lost continent of Atlantis, hidden somewhere on the Princeton campus. Harvard lost the nautical tussle, 7-3, in a game that featured some really good punting...
John Hollingsworth does "rebirthing," a method of "releasing old patterns" by dealing with long-suppressed aspects of the trauma of birth. Leonard Orr discovered the technique in California and taught people to lie face down in a hot tub, breathing through a snorkel and maintaining a calm mindset. "After 20 to 25 minutes they'd go into a kind of fetal position and their breath would get very labored," Hollingsworth explains. This typically led to an ecstatic "rebirth experience" which was for many people "too powerful, too much of an accelerated growth." Hollingsworth now uses a "dry rebirthing technique" involving...