Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might rejoice that the swimming pool has become so popular, if it did not mean that the pool is more crowded than it has ever been. This unpleasantness might be more tolerable if all swimmers adopted the protocol that 95 per cent of them customarily follow. (Except after 5:30 p.m., when the rule of the jungle alone applies. Swim at your own risk...
According to overwhelmingly universal custom, swimmers swim lengths, not widths of the pool...
...pool gets even more crowded, so that the situation becomes really impossible, other regulations might be useful. The pool could be opened at 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. Swimmers training for the Boston lighthouse swim or sidestroke marathon swimmers should be encouraged to use the pool in off-hours. With five minutes instruction, most swimmers could vastly improve the efficiency of their exercise and would need less time...
...there are times when its potential is stunningly achieved. Director Losey uses the Maudsleys' listlessness and frozen states-of-mind against themselves, and he is equally skillful at portraying Burgess's directness without overstating it. He is able in a single sequence to crystallize all plot conflicts: Burgess swims in the Hall pond as several Maudsleys arrive for a bathing party, with Leo along to watch. (Though he has a bathing suit, his mother warned him not to swim, lest he catch cold). The Maudsleys must patronize Burgess, one of their valuable tenants: but to the eyes...
Alren's job is an enervating drag and his marriage a ritual of programmed indifference. For kicks he takes up voyeurism. One night his wife Lisa (Joanna Shimkus) discovers him spying on a teen-age swim party and promptly takes off for her sister's. Alren makes several attempts to lure her back, each stymied by Lisa's obstinacy or the pseudopsychological prattering of her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), who has, it seems, a good deal more than an amateur analyst's interest in her brother-in-law. She makes frequent trips to his beachside bachelor...