Word: surfer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first monster wave ate him up. Taylor Knox, a 26-year-old pro surfer, disappeared into the churning foam off Mexico's Todos Santos islands like a rag doll tossed into a washing machine. Then he got another chance. He spotted a second wave, even bigger than the first, and paddled straight for it. As he reached the crest, Knox smoothly swiveled, stood up on his board and started sliding down a slick expanse of water as steep as a cliff. Somehow he stayed in control, even though he flew 6 or 7 ft. through the air so that...
...official word isn't in yet, but the wave Knox rode may well have been more than 50 ft. high. If that's the case, Knox should win the K2 Big Wave Challenge, which at the end of this month will award a $50,000 prize to the surfer who caught the biggest wave of the season. And if he wins, he can thank Sean Collins, the sport's foremost practitioner of the science of surfcasting. Because of Collins and other surfseers, California's big-wave riders aren't wasting time chasing pikers anymore. They're hitching rides on waves...
...plunge into the unknown--and maybe into oblivion. As of last Monday, Slate's daily serving of features and comment on news, politics and culture was declared off limits to any Web surfer who doesn't shell out $19.95 for a yearly subscription. Kinsley, the former New Republic editor (and current TIME essayist), reports that 17,000 subscribers had signed up by midweek, a big falloff in audience but a necessary step, he argues, if the Webzine is to be a self-sustaining business. "Readership is going to plummet at first," Kinsley admits. "But you have to bite the bullet...
...replace African-American dialects, in everything from gangsta to funk to run-of-the-mill infusions. Fargo gave us the possibility of Minnesotan, but the limited variation--a few maple-leaf reminscent phonetic twists and an assortment of pause formations--obviously means it won't pan out. '80s surfer lingo didn't last too long, nor can computerese. So, geeoun before the geeoun's through, and I think latinitata will res out. Nice...
Here the Coens are ready to try anything: in addition to the masterful character of the film's title, the movie features a band of German nihilists, a burnt-out surfer, a tightwad millionaire, a mysterious femme fatale and an attack ferret...