Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nationally, the trend is otherwise; courts and new laws are gradually eroding private beaches. Earlier this year, for instance, the New Jersey Supreme Court took note of "the increasing demand for our state's beaches" and held that they are a "public trust" to which private-property rights must give way. The theory is a groundbreaking, potentially sweeping one. Courts in Oregon, Florida and Hawaii have also upheld beach access under the more legally traditional "doctrine of custom." When the beaches have always been open to the public, these courts have held, they must remain so. In Hawaii...
...left to Gonzales to sound a loftier note. Anticipating a medal-whining performance, East Los Angeles' favorite son was talking accomplishment, not three-fight contracts. "I'm going to wear that gold medal with pride, and then I'm going to put it around my mother's neck," he said. "She deserves it more than me." In a tournament in which it seemed that the amateur ideal of pure sport had taken more than a few shots to the head, this was refreshing indeed. -By Michael Walsh. Reported by BJ. Phillips/Los Angeles
...contact with hands clasping legs, for example, in certain kinds of spins. Dr. Sammy Lee, who was a two-time gold-medal diver, markets these little towels. Guess what they're called: 'Sammy's Shammies.' " I had my note book out. "Has anyone else asked you about Sammy's Shammies?" Naber looked puzzled. "I don't think...
...they write about their social betters, they are usually a little uncomfortable, like a stranger at a grand dinner who furtively watches to see which of the many forks the hostess will pick up next. Louis Auchincloss was born to that elevated society, however. He is, as reviewers always note, perhaps the only living example of the novelist of manners,, the last descendant of Henry James and Edith Wharton...
...Watteau, together with a great deal of their own, into a catalogue that now becomes a standard work. It shows no trace of the puffy garnish of superlatives considered obligatory for blockbuster shows in U.S. museums. The authors discriminate severely: "The execution lacks energy and seems pasty," runs the note on one painting from the Hermitage in Leningrad. "The figures are unsteady, the faces have no character or charm...