Word: surfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firmly and his ambition wavers, his memory clouds. That, in Hawaii, is a pleasant affliction known as "Polynesian paralysis." But one thing that is most emphatically not suffering from paralysis in Hawaii is the tourist business. Since statehood and the jets arrived, tourism has taken off like a surfer riding one of the 25-ft. "Castle Break" curls at Makaha Beach. In 1960, there were 296,517 mainland visitors to the state. In 1966, there will be 700,000. The most conservative estimate predicts 1,000,000 visitors by 1970, the most optimistic...
...rational mind, this may seem to be an unlikely adventure, yet Brown, an expert surfer and a skillful camerman, manages to make it convincing. As in his four previous films, he offers a believable explanation of the surfers' dream world, where long waves break evenly on isolated beaches and the sun never sets...
...eventually, looking at waves breaking on beaches, whether they are Senegalese or Tahitian, becomes tiresome. Like most amateur filmmakers, Brown doesn't know where to end The Endless Summer; he has to show just one more well-known surfing haunt and one more surfer bleeding from an ugly gash on the forehead. The ingenuous quips and noises eventually come to seem plainly adolescent...
...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...
Much of the credit for the change can be chalked up to Publisher Otis Chandler, 38, a fun-loving surfer and weight lifter who took over from his father Norman in 1960 and surprised everybody with his energetic approach to his job. Under his urging, the paper has been noticeably brightened. Page 2 is devoted to capsule summaries of the day's news, with the less important stories getting no further space in the paper-a practice that opens up many more columns for stylishly written news analysis and interpretation. Recently, in an effort to make the paper more...