Word: swimmer
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...Spare Change Guy. 11) Write punny headlines in Sharpie all over your body and tell everyone how smart you are; you are The Crimson (recycling and paper maché also recommended). 12) Buy a Speedo, shave your chest, and call me around 9 p.m...I mean, call yourself a swimmer. 13) Be the “Classic Female Fallback”: wear revealing lingerie, but make it socially acceptable by adding angel wings or bunny ears. 14) Be the “Classic Male Fallback”: wear the “Classic Female Fallback,” but claim...
...prose, the rewards are pleasurable and profound. In The Valley of Lagoons, we enter the stillness of the Gulf country through the consciousness of a 16-year-old boy to discover "an interweaving of close but distant voices so dense that they become one." The sensual motion of a swimmer is watched so intensely by a woman undergoing chemotherapy in Towards Midnight that the reader is drawn into "the fleshy roots of her iris." Each story carries its own quiet brush with mortality...
...parent watching your child, so proud, and so worried. Your neighbors' son was a nationally ranked swimmer, straight As, great boards, nice kid. Got rejected at his top three choices, wait-listed at two more. Who gets into Yale these days anyway? Maybe they should have sent him to Mali for the summer to dig wells, fight malaria, give him something to write about in his essay...
...serenely on her back, her long brown hair making a slow swirl in the blue water and her arms outstretched like a cross. She seemed so at peace he thought she might fall asleep on that bed of water. He would later find out that she was a champion swimmer and had once swum around an island in Mexico. She loved to sail. She loved the water. As Rusty Yates now describes the woman he would marry in 1993, "she was a person who was more graceful in the water than...
...Olympic athletes would feel. Apart from the commercial impact of low ratings in Europe and Asia, morning finals events could hurt the odds of world records. "It's the natural body cycle to be at its best in the afternoon after a day of preparation," says former Australian 1500m swimmer Kieren Perkins, who won gold in 1992 and 1996. "To compete at your best first thing in the morning is very difficult. It's certainly going to have an effect on the quality of performances." Not to mention that many viewers in Europe and Asia may be sleeping through them...