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...treasure was difficult. The deeper waters off the Florida Keys are murky, the bottom heavily silted. Again, technology provided the solution. Several years earlier, Feild had devised a huge pair of fittings that resemble and are called mailboxes, and placed them over the propellers of one of Fisher's tugs, in effect directing the ship's backwash straight down and forming a clear vertical column of water extending to the sea floor. The mailboxes not only improved visibility below but washed away silt and sand. Fisher's divers have been further equipped with an air lift, a long plastic tube...
...pluck of the heroine and the swinishness of the men who oppress her. Moralists can point with satisfaction to the grueling consequences of Anna's licentiousness, the anxiety, humiliation and the trial itself, what she calls "the price I had to pay." And the novel generates enough suspense to tug even those readers who know they are being hoodwinked into its wake. But a shuffling of cliches does not qualify as a literary breakthrough. The author seems skillful enough to have tried something truly daring -- a story, say, about a woman who breaks up with a boring painter and finds...
Festivities move to the Meadowlands Sports Complex on Sunday, as the likes of Muhammad Ali, Bobby Orr, Billie Jean King, Mary Lou Retton and Hank Aaron parade around the stadium. There will be a gymnastics exhibition and skating by Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill and Scott Hamilton. A planned tug-of-war between the New York Jets and Giants football teams seems to have been a casualty of David Wolper's unpredictable kitsch detector, which has been on alert since recent criticisms of the weekend's rampant schlockiness...
That kind of plangent wistfulness is hardly confined to Mother's account of her honeymoon or Grandpa's homesickness for his youth. The tug and ache of nostalgia pull even at the hardiest of travelers. The caustic Evelyn Waugh introduces his collection of travel essays, When the Going Was Good, with a heartbroken valedictory to a vanished Golden Age of travel that is, in effect, a valentine to his own lost youth. In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore...
...guests. Exquisite rock gardens, waterfalls and a pond with lazily swimming pink, black and red koi decorate the landscape. The Japanese-inspired setting in Escondido, 40 miles north of San Diego, may be serene, but the schedule is not. As gongs ring to signal new activities, visitors tug at lavender T shirts to get a look at pinned-on paper fans printed with their personal drill. Most get six hours of relentless exercise, beginning with a brisk 1 1/2- to 5 1/2-mile hike at dawn and climaxing in the afternoon with the women's aerobic circuit, WAC in the appropriate...