Word: decking
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...million yacht Drum during the final leg of the international Admiral's Cup race about two miles off the coast of Cornwall last week when the keel snapped off and the craft capsized. The singer and five of the 24-man crew were trapped in an air pocket below deck, where they waited for 40 minutes until a navy diver helped them swim to safety. "I feel very lucky to be alive," says the unsinkable Le Bon, a sailor since childhood. "I still love the sea. This has not put me off sailing for one moment...
...bridge too far for him" in terms of work load. Indeed, Burr often rises as early as 5:30 a.m. and begins work in the study of his white clapboard home in Bernardsville, N.J. There he toils all day Mondays, usually wearing a flannel shirt, baggy jeans and deck shoes. During the rest of the week he dons a business suit and drives 40 minutes to the airport in his metallic-gray...
Basically, Nolan's job is to revive a troubled studio franchise, and you can feel him struggling to reanimate the neurotic dislocations of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman. His effort is not dishonorable, but what it needs, and doesn't have, is a Joker in the deck-some antic human antimatter to give it the giddy lift of perversity that a bunch of impersonal explosions, no matter how well managed, can't supply. -By Richard Schickel
...reach and continuing relevance of network TV. For a brief, blissful week - at least in the words of the marketing executives - it will be 1973 again, when the broadcast networks delivered vast hordes of obedient consumers to advertisers, and cable was just something you found coiled up on the deck of a boat...
Coming into the last 500 meters, each of the four boats sat less than 90 seconds away from a Sprints title. Harvard and Yale were dead even, Cornell was a deck behind, and Navy was a dangerous four seats off of the pace...