Word: surfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engagement. When they arrived two weeks ago-96 musicians, 43 wives and 36 children-they were met by a caravan of 40 cars and treated to a wee-hour spin across Daytona's famed beach. In the days since, it has been one continuous round of sun and surf-and great music...
...foibles, if she played the piano loudly while Mother was trying to give an interview, if she teased photographers hip-deep into the Atlantic City surf in order to take her picture, Luci's capers never became a public problem. Nellie Grant's flirtations were so well noted that her mother packed her off to Europe at 16-only to have Nellie return with a dandified English worshiper in tow. Alice Roosevelt (who will attend this week's wedding) scandalized Washington 60 years ago by smoking cigarettes in public and riding horseback in breeches...
...Captain." Suddenly the tub sprang a leak, and pretty soon Pussycat was drifting helplessly. At last, when the table floated across the dining room, Mr. Captain and crew abandoned ship and made it to the beach, where they watched $350,000 worth of status break up in the surf...
...with almost nothing else on their minds is remote Cape St. Francis in South Africa, where the small, perfectly curling waves give a long, loose ride. From the shores of Ghana to Tahiti's black sand beaches to Hawaii's perilous "Pipeline"-the Mount Everest of surf-dom-chills and spills crowd onto the screen. Some are caught by a waterproofed camera that behaves like a frolicsome seal, nuzzling close enough to eye a surfer's footwork, or leaving the viewer breathless and upended under a cascade of angry white water...
...narrator, Brown sounds most at sea whenever he ventures a comment on activities ashore. Like any loquacious neighborhood, hobbyist who has gone overboard for home movies, he mixes obtuse observations of native customs with exuberant how-dy-do's ("Say hello, Lance. Atta baby!") to some of his surfing pals visited along the way. Perhaps wisely, Brown leaves analysis of the surf-cult mystique to seagoing sociologists, but demonstrates quite spiritedly that some of the brave souls mistaken for beachniks are, in fact, converts to a difficult, dangerous and dazzling sport...