Word: snorkel
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Among this year's favorites: fish-skin bikinis, a new love drug, transparent kayaks, a singing snorkel, the car that parks itself and the invisible...
...Iraq, and I chose to use in the sand dunes of Cancun. I purchased something called a “British CFP Pack,” and an “Ammunition Bag,” and used both as carry-ons, for such important belongings as my snorkel...
...play. Doctors there are trying out a toy-like device called PediSedate for putting kids to sleep without anxiety. Meant for kids ages 3 to 9, the gadget looks like a big, plastic version of a pilot's headset--in a choice of blue or cranberry--with a snorkel attached. The contraption is connected to a Nintendo Game Boy or, for music lovers, a portable CD player. When it's time for surgery, the child dons the headset (instead of a scary face mask), and, while happily preoccupied, is slipped a dose of nitrous oxide through the snorkel. Within minutes...
...then the cowboy Cary Grant and the low-rent Grace Kelly went to the Great Barrier Reef by helicopter - see you later, Amber, I got work to do - for a big lunch and a snorkel. And there amid the coral occurred a great, G-Rated Romance, Hollywood-style. (Fast-action "happiness montage" included.) They were destined to be together, you see, and besides we had a subplot to plumb: Jerri making her move (and her moves) on the king of the tribe that maybe needed a reason to keep her around. Very "To Catch a Thief," with maybe just...
...GRADUATE and 11) RUSHMORE Swimming pools symbolize the gaping hole of family life. In The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman's Ben tries out his snorkel-gear present; underwater, he can see his parents talking but can't hear a word they say. Rushmore transfers the loneliness to the father (Bill Murray). Polishing off his whiskey on the diving board, he jumps into the pool feet first, his wife and children staring at him with confused contempt...