Word: yachting
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...night at Boston’s swankiest cigar bar, armed with a brandy snifter, he prefers his eggshell button-down Oxford and tastefully tartan tie from J. Press. One day, his American Government degree will land him a stint in London negotiating real estate deals, a yacht named after his childhood golden retriever Sebastian and a wife as well versed in Don DeLillo and Michael Ondaatje as she is in Neiman Marcus heritage homewares for their house in the Hamptons...
...audiences the way his predecessor did. Goree island appeared abandoned, the brightly painted mustard and rose buildings that cater to vacationers shuttered, flanked only by the occasional uniformed soldier and his strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...
Perkins recalled taking sailing trips with Rothschild and both their wives on Rothschild’s yacht, the Moonbeam. Together, they took sea trips to places like Halifax and Scandinavia...
...multiplies their speed as if they're toddlers on sugar. These cars seem to double as aircraft. When goosed by an ace driver, the Skyline vaults across a yawning drawbridge, and the Yenko flies across the water to crash-land on the upper deck of the bad guy's yacht. 2F2F has a bit of plot about an ex-cop (Paul Walker) enlisting an old pal (Tyrese) to foil a drug lord. But it pays off as a thrill-delivery system, a convoy of road rage and carnage. It reminds you of what movies are: motion pictures. Speed...
...Union Jacks?as well as these characteristics, the archetypal Empire clubs, until the late-20th century, shared another: unwritten color bars. May Holdsworth, in her history of Hong Kong expatriate life, Foreign Devils, cites Anne Baker, a Eurasian whose white husband had to resign from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in the 1950s upon marrying her. Also quoted is Michael Wright, a former government architect, who remembers that at the Hong Kong Club "there was nothing in the rules to say that Chinese couldn't join. It had simply been understood that you didn't put a Chinese...