Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bahamas. From St. Louis to Saint-Tropez, people who used to ride sailboats or surfboards-or would not be caught on either -are trying something that combines the best of both: windsurfing, a fast-growing sport that makes the practitioner a part of his boat as he holds the sail, and the wind, in his hands...
Occidental moviemakers perceive her as a fashion photographer (Eyes of Laura Mars) or a ratings-mad television executive (Network). But Tokyo Art Director Eiko Ishioka, casting around for a Japanese TV commercial, saw in Faye Dunaway something of Kannon Bosatsu, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. Rigged in sail-like goddess attire, the inscrutable pitchperson has no lines, but she kisses and caresses two tiny girls in a fetching commercial for a chain of boutiques, galleries and theaters that airs next month...
...Thailand, 32,000 in Indonesia, 58,000 in Hong Kong. Last month Thailand repatriated 42,000 Cambodians at gunpoint, sending them back across the border to danger and possible death. Thousands are forcibly kept on ships in Hong Kong awaiting permission to go ashore. In Hong Kong, picnickers sail with silent embarrassment past the Skyluck, with its 2,664 Vietnamese survivors and its beseeching banners, HAVE MERCY ON US. In a sense these are the lucky ones, because they have not been lost at sea. At least...
...gonna sail to the hinterland...
...many glib one-liners sail across the stage, but mainly the drama cuts through the seas of postmatrimonial distress, casting a spray of laughter over the salty follies...