Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scunthorpe, England, who spent his youth hacking through heather and gorse, Jacklin felt right at home with the winds and wiles of Hazeltine. He was in trouble only twice, both times on the wicked 17th hole-a crooked par four that called for an iron off the tee and swim fins to reach a green surrounded by two ponds. Twice Tony drove wildly into the deep rough; twice he boldly punched out of the trees and hit the green. Jacklin's 281 total bested Runner-Up Hill by seven strokes -the widest winning margin in 49 years of Open...
...ecological art-as apt a name as any -sounds eccentric, it is. But it is also demanding. Its practitioners sweat and swim, dig trenches, hack through ice, suffer desert winds or the muscle aches of long climbs-all for the sake of a few photographs and a memory. No one intent merely on economic security would go in for it, since it results in little that can be sold or even framed. But a considerable number of artists, some young, some not so young, have committed themselves to it. So, as Arthur Miller might say, attention must be paid...
...lines to the Kremlin, and while the security men gasped, gave the operator the A.P. number in Moscow. In 15 seconds he was dictating his story. 'Good communications here,' he observed as he hung up. Then he stripped, borrowed a pair of Nikita's enormous swimming trunks, and went for a swim...
...breathe. The framework is attached to the scalp with two strips of strong double-faced tape. Toupees sold by Squires of Hollywood also use double-faced tape that covers most of the interior of the hairpiece and allows the wearer to "sleep in it, live in it . . . even swim in it." Most such rugs cost between...
Last was a leopard shark, billeted in close quarters, looking bilious and rapacious. I watched him swim urgently into the wall, forced to close a circle despite his desire to strike out on a straight line; the passion for linearity, the fatality of circularity, the bleak, self-depleting alternation of ferocity and grim quiescence; above all, the constriction, the small diameter of the circle, with the glass portion of the circumference flashing ever changing, ever irrelevant glimpses of the other spectator strolling among the circles, always falling imperceptibly to his right; these thoughts passed through my mind. The circle...