Word: surfboard
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...beaten-up longboards. It's a reminder that Santa Cruz was the first place surfing occurred in the continental United States, when, in 1885, three Hawaiian princes who were attending a nearby military school rode waves on redwood boards. In the ensuing years, Santa Cruz became headquarters for surfboard shapers and wet-suit makers and fostered an entirely new beach culture, one that's become popular even in landlocked locales. The city even once sued Huntington Beach in Southern California over the rights to the name "Surf City." (Both cities continue to use the nickname.) (See a picture of Barack...
...That attack was followed by several more. On Jan. 11, a man surfing near Fingal Head in northern New South Wales was bitten on the thigh. Jonathon Beard, 31, made it to shore and survived after his friends used the leg rope from his surfboard to stem the bleeding...
...snowy head in anger as he dubbed Obama's claim to have been consistently against the war the "biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." He and others in the campaign suggested that the only reason Obama was riding the wave was that the media gave him a surfboard. Hillary Clinton's frustrations became palpable when her eyes welled with tears during an election-eve campaign event...
From an early age, LaBeouf was exposed to adult pastimes. With his dad he watched Steve McQueen movies and went to Rolling Stones concerts and AA meetings, where, at age 10, he learned to smoke and play cards. He met a kid whose surfboard he really liked. "He was on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman," LaBeouf says. "He had all the stuff I wanted, materially. When you're in school, if you've got the new Filas on, no one's gonna punch you that day." The key to new Filas, LaBeouf figured, was to get paid to clown around...
...emotion an object or a building or a teapot can evoke in an individual (in today's market that feeling, ideally, is desire). Think of the stylish plasticity of the iPod, or the silly humor of Michael Graves' now famous Alessi teakettle, or the nostalgia of a surfboard-shaped Marc Newson aluminum table. Great design is both astonishing and pedestrian. It can be shockingly fashionable and downright useful. These days, design touches almost every part of our lives, thanks to mass-market manufacturers and retailers...