Word: knots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never relinquished the lead. On the 24.1-mile course's four windward legs, Conner refused to be drawn into Dickson's practiced tacking maneuvers, in which the lead boat covers the one behind, trying to prevent it from escaping the blockage of its breeze. In a blustery 26-knot wind, Stars & Stripes did not risk losing that contest and barreled straight ahead to win by 1:20. The second meeting was a replay of the first: Stars & Stripes blew ahead on a gusty breeze to a 1:36 victory. But Dennis-no- longer-the-Menace did not crow...
...blond beauty in her mid-30s who has been his live-in for the past year and a half. Carson met Maas on the beach near his Malibu home. No date has been set for the wedding. It is understandable if Carson is in no hurry to retie the knot. His support payment for his third wife comes to a whopping $420,000 a year...
...seated by a vase of flowers in The Black Table, 1919, one sees his hand evoking the most difficult conjunctions of sight and imagination -- in the way the transparent Turkish blouse is rendered by a few luscious strokes of white over the flesh, for instance, or in the sliding knot of green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome...
There was a light drizzle, but in Italy that is considered good luck for the bride. Only a week after word of their engagement leaked out, Designer Calvin Klein, 43, and Kelly Rector, thirtyish, an assistant in his firm, stitched the knot in a secretive civil ceremony in Rome. Why Rome? "I've never been before," smiled the radiant bride. The couple slipped quietly into the red room of the historic Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill and exchanged vows in front of the councilman for the city police. (The mayor sent his regrets.) Afterward, the pair posed briefly for photographers...
...first, and still most famous, of the new submersibles, Alvin. Operated by Woods Hole, the 23-ft.-long craft could carry three people to a depth of 6,000 ft., pick up objects with an arm and claw, and roam the sea floor at a speed of one knot (Alvin has since been lengthened to 25 ft. and given a second arm-claw, as well as a new pressure hull that enables it to operate as far down as 13,120 ft.). The stellar performance of the tiny sub during the second Titanic mission was only the latest...