Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kostrubala, proud owner of a highly therapeutic 32-ft. cruising sloop. "It's a link with nature, with God, with the primeval. It touches your fantasy, your very wellspring. You have to read Conrad to really understand." For those who race, the motivation has a keener edge. "The sport is marvelously complex and terribly competitive," says Bill Parks. "It's a great challenge because there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance out of it. Even then, it's a roll...
...Dinkeloo & Assocs. has designed the buoyant $10,000,000 National Aquarium to be transparently clear and open. Located at Haines Point, in spacious Potomac Park, it is to be crowned by a 114-ft.-high greenhouse, shaped like a streamlined horseshoe, which will permit scientists from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife to construct complete ecologies, or natural environments, within it. Reconstructed portions of the Florida Everglades, coral reefs and East and West Coast tidal pools will display not only fish but also insects and even birds in native common habitats...
Nevertheless, the park has become a preserve for high school kids who can't afford to sit in the Blue Parrot all day, and for marijuana brokers who use the spot as a pot Rialto. The rich ones sport Truc-loads of mod clothes and jewelery, the poor ones flaunt their general dishevellment. In the course of a day, 200 or 300 come and go. The Cambridge cops chase everyone away at midnight...
...Trip drips with the same appeal to both generations. The hero gushes, I love the world including this girl I just met and slept with. The implication is that LSD makes loving easy. How nice. But, interrupts a spoil-sport, how 'bout tomorrow? Will love produced by a drug remain forever? Is embracing a non-tripping world realistic? Corman produces enough ambiguity to placate the rest of the world while he angles for a cool-world audience. He calculates the indecisiveness of his movies. A cop-out of the dirtiest kind...
...doesn't make any difference to the boys in McNulty's who wins or loses the Mayoralty campaign. It's just another election. And in December they'll forgetall about it and begin talking about the 1968 election. After all, it is, as the fellah says, the number one sport in the city...