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Gartner said to compensate for the extreme cold, he wears a six-millimeter wetsuit with only his face exposed—and just barely...

Author: By Eden B. Mcdowell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Wins Surfing Contest | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

...calls McKellen "the best-kept secret in the film world," was surprised at Sir Ian's bounding vim. "He eats everything he wants and has the energy of a 20-year-old." McKellen was robust enough to endure eight hours as a corpse in a pool, wearing a rubber wetsuit under a heavy tweed outfit. "He was the most remarkable dead body I've ever seen," says Lynn Redgrave, his housekeeper in the film. "And I've worked with one or two in my time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sir Ian McKellen: Ready for His Closeup | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...weekend the XIV Winter Games had a heroine: Enke, whose 5 ft. 9¼ in., most of it legs, qualifies her as towering. She is an overgrown figure skater who may have forgotten how to do a triple jump, but has retained delicateness and grace. Out of her wetsuit, she puts no one in mind of a frogman. Her light-brown hair falls past her shoulders. "Where do you put it?" someone asked. She laughed. "Part in the cap, part in the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snows, and Glows, of Sarajevo | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...swimmer, both characteristics common to people from the Buenaventura coastal area where he was born. His role is to retrieve a 4-lb. waterproof bag of cocaine dumped overboard from a Grancolombiana line freighter docked at the Atlantic Avenue wharf in Brooklyn. He works at night, wearing a black wetsuit, and he is very cautious. A similar diver, Carlos Riascos, had his throat slit and body dumped in the river as he clambered ashore with his catch. Restrepo is also honest, at least to his trade; another diver, Asaiel Alomia, who decided last spring to keep his valuable garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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