Word: sunkenness
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...Games show, a stunt driver named Spunky piloted a car off a 45-ft.-high ramp into a lake. The camera focused on the clenched face of his wife as rescue divers made their way to the sunken auto. Would Spunky survive his dive? (Answer: yes.) In another segment, Motorcyclist Rex Black well roared off a ramp and over two parked helicopters as their blades whirled at 350 r.p.m. "He barely cleared the last blade!" exulted the commentator as a slow-motion replay showed just how close Blackwell had come to being converted to steak tartare...
...embarrassment experienced by a man whose body has begun the process of betrayal. No one is spared, least of all the author. She recalls her resentment of the illness that disables both her husband and her marriage: "I ache for him but I resent him as well, this sick, sunken man ... The intensity of the anger that hovers here, beneath what I take to be love, is frightening. I understand the wretched banality of such an anger as this . . . yet it shames and appalls...
...order submitted in January to Miami's Bond Plumbing Supply Inc. seemed fit for King Louis XIV: a custom-made sunken bathtub, a sink with 24-karat gold-plated faucets, pastel blue toi lets, a "harvest gold" bidet with chrome-plated trim, even a portable Jacuzzi. But when Carol Cherrey, office manager and taxpayer, saw the name on the $8,934 or der, she said she "blew my stack." The deluxe fixtures were ostensibly ordered for a vocational instruction class at MacArthur South High School. Yet MacArthur, a school for 235 troubled youths, had no plumbing class...
...rise frogmen, smoothly and without pain up from the depths, trailing your train of air; bring us news of sunken Atlantis, our fabled pasts. Keep us in touch...
...sunken continent," to which Updike appeals to show the unity between human individual islands is a tired thematic device. The frogman and the Cub Scout mother have very little to say to each other...