Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beach look leaves some veteran wave climbers bemused. Ed Hagan, 33, of Queens, N.Y., remembers how at the age of eight he transported his % surfboard on a converted shopping cart to Rockaway Beach. "All you ever needed was a board, trunks, wax and the urge to get wet." What? No multicolored zinc oxide...
...work with. When they located the 16th century warship Mary Rose (which sank in 45 ft. of water off Portsmouth in 1545) and raised it in 1982, half of the hull had been buried under protective silt for centuries. The waterlogged structure, part of which had the consistency of wet cardboard, was moved into dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Base, and has since been sprayed constantly with a cold-water mist to keep the wood from disintegrating in the air. This treatment will continue for another three years, after which polyethylene glycol, a waxy preserving agent, will be included...
Hoskins plays this dear wet simp with a rude winsomeness. Tyson (Cicely's niece) finds dignity and pathos in a whore's hauteur. As the gang lord, Michael Caine exudes satiny menace. And Director Neil Jordan (who wrote the + script with David Leland) tells the story from George's point of view while filming it in a style as fancy and knowing as Simone's. No wonder audiences have taken to this gritty romance as to a mongrel puppy; for at heart Mona Lisa is an old-fashioned poor-soul weepie, and George is less a Cagney rakehell than...
...leader of a new Tory breed, as intent on fiscal austerity and hard-line anti-Soviet rhetoric as it is distrustful of the aristocracy, therefore came as a surprise to many. Carrington, in the words of Lowell House Government Tutor and Harkness Fellow Andrew Sullivan, "is the archetypal Tory `wet,'" the standard characterization for those in opposition to Thatcher's tight-fisted domestic policy...
...equipment, moving every 45 seconds from arm weights to a stationary bike to leg presses to the rowing machine. To help the medicine go down, there is often a spoonful of sweetener (not sugar, naturally). After the hike, instructors produce jugs of water, paper cups, sliced oranges and, finally, wet washcloths to wipe sticky fingers. As a refresher after bathhouse treatments, guests find cellophane-packaged blue toothbrushes--toothpaste already applied. Many find the week-long stay a real mind emptier. Returning home to Steamboat Springs, Colo., says Noel Hefty, 38, "I got off the plane...