Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large doses that affected his memory and judgment. Black's supporters, on the other hand, claim that Gelsthorpe and his allies in Boston cooked up a "Caine mutiny" against Black. The friction got so explosive that at one board meeting, when a director called in from a yacht in the Caribbean to vote for a slate of new board members endorsed by Alexander, one of Alexander's opponents ripped the intercom from the wall so that the vote could not be recorded...
...reporters clustered around the President at the close of his remarks, one onlooker jokingly suggested that Ford economize by firing Kennerly and hiring Susan. "That wouldn't save much," she shot back between pictures. "I don't come cheap." Her reputation thus defended, she boarded the presidential yacht Sequoia the following night to photograph the first floating Cabinet meeting on record. "That was longer than Gone With the Wind," remarked Actress Joanne Woodward following a film tribute to her and Husband Paul Newman in Manhattan last week. The program, which featured clips from 27 movies by Woodward...
...that individually reflect great imagination but together conspire to break the play's rhythm and dwarf the actors' role. The designers, Peter Agoos and Franco Colavecchia, have produced aluminum trees that quality as sculpture but prove unwieldy and stunning wire masks for the stereotyped foreign companions aboard Peer's yacht that reveal their national character but muffle their voices...
...there are too many disturbances due to oversized props or sudden sound effects, it is only because Ibsen's stage directions (for example: "A jet of fire shoots into the air from the yacht, followed by thick clouds of smoke: a hollow report is heard... Gradually the smoke clears away: the ship has disappeared.") demand technical wizardry far beyond the capabilities of the Loeb. Peer Gynt's production staff should have accepted this, instead of burdening the stage with contraptions planned to meet the author's specifications that only sap the play of its dramatic strength...
Down she slides: not a Blue Ribander, evidently; smaller than we were led to expect, and lighter; but so buoyant, so fresh and trim in line, that we only realize later and with the mildest disappointment that this Pride of the Clyde is in fact a yacht...